Press releases

Researchers are inviting partner organisations and charities to work with them to help shape and progress a study to develop new ways of reducing self-harm and suicide in autistic adults.

Police, council and university leaders across the city and county have pledged their commitment to working together in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A new study will look at how many nurses and doctors have been infected with COVID-19 and how the immune system responds to the virus.

Raising awareness of organ donation

Experts from the University of Nottingham have helped to develop a new genetic test that can predict the risk of different medications causing liver injury.

Displaced people living in temporary settlements in Zimbabwe are to get help to protect themselves against COVID-19 in a new project led by education and sociology experts at the University of Nottingham.

Engineers and computer scientists at the University of Nottingham are joining forces on a £1.8m grant to help build the world’s first contactless 3D body scanner to aid early detection of diseases like cancer. 

Researchers have discovered how a protein in plant roots controls the uptake of minerals and water, a finding which could improve the tolerance of agricultural crops to climate change and reduce the need for chemical fertilisers.

An expert in penal reform at the University of Nottingham has won £1.3m in European Research Council funding to develop the first ever model of criminal justice detention regulation, which could help to tackle the current prison crisis in England and Wales.

An international forum has marked the start of an exciting global network which will look at research into healthy ageing and rehabilitation around the world.