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£13 million award backs world-class research supporting Midlands’ bioeconomy

Three of the Midlands’ leading universities have been awarded £13 Million for a “Doctoral Training Partnership” to provide research training to support the Midlands bioeconomy.

The Partnership, led by University of Warwick, together with the University of Birmingham, and the University of Leicester, has received the award for their Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) which will train an additional 260 PhD research students over the next 5 years (130 will be funded directly by the BBSRC and 130 by matched-funding from the three universities).

Mon 06 Oct 2014, 11:43

Eating five a day may keep the blues away

Wed 24 Sept 2014, 19:59

Warwick scientists have discovered how a bloodsucking parasite has transformed Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) into one of the biggest threats facing UK honeybees

Wed 02 Jul 2014, 16:11

BBC Midlands Today at Warwick Crop Centre's UK Vegetable Genebank

Following the announcement that Warwick Crop Centre has won a five year contract from Defra to continue to host the UK Vegetable Genebank at the University’s Wellesbourne Campus, BBC Midlands Today discuss with Rosemary Collier and Peter Walley the importance of this store of genetic diversity for breeding into crop varieities of the future to solve farming problems.

Fri 13 Jun 2014, 12:45