Press Releases
Warwick secures three prestigious Wellcome Career Development Awards
Three ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ researchers have been awarded highly competitive Wellcome Career Development Awards to tackle fundamental questions in biology and history with the potential to improve future health, medicine and food security.
New study overturns long-held model of how plants coordinate immune responses
ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough live-imaging tool.
Caterpillar gods and bridal gifts: research from The ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ shows how indigenous culture has shaped crop diversity
A research collaboration between The ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, the Smithsonian Institution and Embrapa (Brazilian agricultural research), has shown that thousands of years of farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca).
Warwick Biochemist awarded eight-year Fellowship for research into antibiotic drug resistance
Dr Melissa Webby, a biochemist from the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Career Development Award, to undertake world class research into new approaches to combat antimicrobial drug resistance.
Systems engineering of cell factories almost doubles output and offers a sustainable alternative to producing chemicals from fossil-fuel
Engineers from The ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ’s Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre and Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering have unveiled how to engineer microbial ‘cell-factories’ to boost the manufacture of high-value chemicals that are used in everyday products like domestic goods, clothes and food.
New fellowships announced in UK-Japan partnership to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Two infectious disease experts have been selected to be Policy Fellows as part of a Japan-UK collaboration led by The ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ to tackle antimicrobial resistance.