The University of Nottingham has been selected as one of five pilot centres across the country to speed up the development of fundamental medical research and turn it into new and exciting treatments and diagnostics to help improve human health and well being

Robert Gordon University is offering an exciting, and free, workshop to senior secondary school pupils across Scotland during the October holidays

Researchers are working on groundbreaking research to determine what damage obesity can inflict on the muscles in our body

Fifty-nine undergraduates with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds will meet at the University of Cambridge for the first Amgen Scholars European Symposium with the common goal of discussing their potential as the future generation of leading scientists

A pharmacy student from Leicester is putting into practice the skills he has learnt as part of his degree to assist a celebrity-backed charity with diabetes testing in India

Funding for pioneering research at The University of Nottingham is at an all-time high – despite the tougher climate affecting grant awards

People with Alzheimer's disease who develop an infection need to be treated as soon as possible to prevent it worsening their dementia

Scientists have identified a genetic variation in people with type 2 diabetes that affects how the body's muscle cells respond to the hormone insulin

For the fourth consecutive year pharma giant Abbott has been named one of the '50 Best Places to Launch a Career' by Business Week magazine in the US

Scientists at Leeds University have prevented epilepsy caused by a gene defect from being passed on to mice offspring – an achievement that may herald new therapies for people suffering from the condition

Scientists at the University of Leeds have been awarded £184,000 by the British Heart Foundation to continue efforts to find a cure for heart disease

Medway School of Pharmacy has been rated number one in the table of higher education institutions in the National Student Survey published recently

A University of Nottingham researcher involved in the discovery of new pharmaceuticals has been awarded a visiting professorship by the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science.

The human resources agency, RSA, presented a bioscience student at Cambridge University with an award and cheque for £500 for his "outstanding" dissertation in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals

James Caan, from Dragon's Den, has invested in a specialist CSO and healthcare recruiter, STAR, founded by Lucy O’Neill and Tim Webster

Funding for teaching at England's universities is being cut by 1.36 per cent next year to save £65m

The government has announced that it will fund student loans for an extra 10,000 university places in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, but universities will have to find the funding for teaching

Kingston University has opened a £420,000 Pharmacy Practice Laboratory to train its students before they commence work in the health service