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Cardiff leads new £16M dementia fight

19 June 2014

Industry and academia unite in new approach to accelerate dementia research.

Senior Investigator Award funds research into neuronal development

19 June 2014

Professor Alun Davies receives major research award

ground breaking invention clears smoke

Ground-breaking invention clears smoke... and awards

18 June 2014

A ground-breaking invention which clears smoke created during keyhole surgery has won the inaugural 'People's Choice' Award at this year's Cardiff University Innovation and Impact Awards.

Down's Syndrome Vision Research Unit

Down's syndrome eye care pioneer receives OBE

18 June 2014

Dr Maggie Woodhouse has been awarded an OBE for services to optometry and people with disabilities.

eye care pioneer

Eye care pioneer receives OBE

16 June 2014

Senior Lecturer is honoured for services to People with Disabilities.

Nick Pidgeon

Climate change professor honoured with MBE

16 June 2014

Professor Nick Pidgeon makes the Queen's birthday honours list for services to climate change awareness.

Professor Mike Owen

Knighthood for genetics pioneer

16 June 2014

Professor Mike Owen awarded knighthood in Queen's birthday honours.

wales officer minister visit

Wales Office Minister visit

12 June 2014

Baroness Randerson visits £30m Haydn Ellis Building to see groundbreaking research into cancer and mental illness.

New and emerging health technologies for inherited retinal diseases

12 June 2014

This review sought to identify new and emerging health technologies that aim to slow or stop disease progression and/or reverse sight loss in people with inherited retinal diseases.

Scientists decode worlds most complex human virus

Scientists decode world's most complex human virus

11 June 2014

Researchers from Cardiff and Harvard have provided the most detailed understanding to date of the world's most complex virus.