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University of º£½ÇÉçÇø-based Minerva, one of the UK’s largest traditional angel investor networks, has teamed up with Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise to expand the funding opportunities available to start-up businesses in the West Midlands by launching a network of ‘business angels with insight’ for Birmingham.

The University of º£½ÇÉçÇø is one of 26 UK universities receiving funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for its Impact Acceleration Account (IAA). The funding award was announced today [31] by the ESRC and followed a competitive, peer-reviewed process.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) will receive up to £20 million, subject to approval of a satisfactory business case, to enable WMG, at the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø to create the UK Mobility Data Institute, a focussed research centre to collect, process and analyse transport data generated by the advent of new mobility technologies such as autonomous vehicles and smart charging of electrified vehicles.

The UK’s first 1 GHz solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer is on its way to the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø, thanks to £8 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

A new state-of-the-art Cryo-Electron Microscope (Cryo-EM) facility that will advance the understanding of the processes of life has been officially opened.

A University of º£½ÇÉçÇø academic is to be awarded for their outstanding contribution to UK cell biology. Andrew McAinsh, professor of cell biology at º£½ÇÉçÇø Medical School is to receive the British Society for Cell Biology’s (BSCB) prestigious Hooke Medal.