Press releases

The University of Nottingham is celebrating the recognition of three of its academics in the New Year Honours 2022, including a knighthood for one of the most recognisable faces from the scientific response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Speaking to the University of Nottingham's Press Office, Professor Van Tam said: “Vaccines have just completely changed our ability to cope with Covid-19 so far."

A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, will look at whether eating small amounts of certain nutrients before meals could improve blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.

The world’s first study into the best treatment options for adults living with severe hearing loss has launched in the UK.

Experts at the University of Nottingham and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have been awarded £1.2m from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to improve the rehabilitation of patients following surgery for finger flexor tendon injuries.

The largest study of care homes in the UK, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that a co-ordinated approach to fall prevention in care homes is effective in significantly reducing the number of times residents fall.

The Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM) at the University of Nottingham is to host a series of online lectures.

Experts from the University of Nottingham have been working with researchers in Indonesia to tackle colon cancer, which affects three times as many young people in the country than in the UK.

A plant-based antiviral treatment for Covid-19, recently discovered by scientists at the University of Nottingham, has been found to be just as effective at treating all variants of the virus SARS-CoV-2, even the highly infectious Delta variant.