Faculty news

UCL PhD students and alumni recently pitched their startups to investors at Conception X’s largest-ever Demo Day.

We are delighted to share that research by Professor Özgür Yazaydın, from UCL Chemical Engineering, has been recognised in the Scientific Background to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Philip Treleaven Award, created by Conception X and named after Professor Philip Treleaven, recognises exceptional science founders who have built influential companies from their research.

The Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing Hub wins the Richard Wilson Impact Award in recognition of its transformative impact across the biopharmaceutical and advanced therapy sectors.

Ofcom’s new guidance on protecting women and girls online cites UCL’s Gender + Tech Lab 28 times, recognising the Lab’s significant influence on UK efforts to reduce technology-facilitated abuse.

Studying engineering at UCL isn’t always an easy ride, and balancing work and personal life can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when exam season is approaching.

UCL Computer Science marked Islamophobia Awareness Month with a Lunch & Learn exploring how Islamophobia operates and its impact on sectors including higher education.

AI can predict how well patients with rectal cancer will respond to treatment by analysing standard tissue samples taken during diagnosis, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH.

UCL has invested over £400,000 to develop robotics facilities across Bloomsbury and Here East, enabling research into low-carbon construction materials and innovative building practices.

Students in UCL’s Industry Exchange Network (IXN) have developed AI-powered, gesture-based games with UCL spinout MotionInput Games to make gaming more accessible for autistic learners.

Outstanding staff, students and PGTAs were awarded prizes at the annual CEE-FES Education Awards.

A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.

UCL marked Black History Month with From Past to Progress, celebrating Black achievement through talks on the Harlem Renaissance, decolonising education, and representation in science.

Ilham Wicaksono (MSc Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development) has won a prize in OpenAI’s global hackathon on red-teaming its newly released open-source model, GPT-OSS-20.

UCL researchers Dr Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete and Prof Maria Hawkins were awarded MRC funding to pilot Octopath, an AI tool set to transform cancer diagnosis in the NHS.