The Faculty are delighted to announce this year's Faculty Thesis and PostDoc Prizes have been launched. For more details, please visit the prizes webpage.

We are excited to share that our team “TIAKong” secured leading positions in the recent PUMALink opens in a new window (Panoptic segmentation of nuclei and tissue in advanced Melanoma) Challenge, organized by the Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, in the Netherlands. With over 300 participants from around the globe, this challenge aimed to advance automated panoptic segmentation techniques for H&E-stained melanoma tissue images.

Led by our PhD students Jiaqi Lv and YiJie Zhu, and supported by Brinder Singh Chohan, Shan E Ahmed Raza, with an external collaborator Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio from the Medical University of Vienna. TIAKong achieved first place in Track 1 and second place in Track 2. This outstanding performance underscores the team’s dedication to pushing the boundaries of medical imaging and improving our understanding of advanced melanoma.

We look forward to building on these results and sharing further developments of our panoptic segmentation model in the near future.

£2M UKRI NetworkPlus bid “Mathematical Innovators in the Digital Space” (MInDS) grant awarded.

Ananya Singh, a third-year PhD student under the supervision of Dr Wing Ying Chow, was selected to present her research at the prestigious STEM for Britain event held at the House of Commons on March 11, 2025. Her research focuses on the 'Development of solid-state NMR approaches for probing fungal and human matrices with relevance to human disease.'

Warwick spinout ErebaGen, co-founded by Prof Greg Challis and Dr Doug Roberts in 2020, receives 1 of 14 “Collaborative Research and Development” Innovate UK grants.

A research collaboration between The University of Warwick, 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).

Press release (7 March 2025)

Two WMG researchers, Mert GülçürLink opens in a new window and Derya Kaya OzdemirLink opens in a new window, have received MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships from Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie ActionsLink opens in a new window.

 MSCALink opens in a new window are the EU’s flagship funding programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training, supporting career development, whilst fostering excellence in research.

Professor Filip Rindler, a mathematician from The University of Warwick, has been announced as an honouree for the UK Physical Sciences & Engineering Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

Warwick Medical School is proud to be part of the new NIHR INSIGHT programme: ‘Inspiring Students into Research’, working with other higher education institutions, the NHS, and local authority partners in the West Midlands. This £4.6M investment from NIHR provides an opportunity for newly qualified and early career health and care professionals (excluding medical and dentist professionals) to undertake research training leading to a Master's qualification.

In a paper published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from The University of Warwick, Monash University, and the University of Bonn, reveal that adults who were born very prematurely, or with a very low birth weight have greater difficulty in forming romantic and sexual relationships and starting a family.

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