UCL News: Engineering

Synthesia, an AI startup co-founded by a UCL scientist, has secured $200 million (£145 million) in new funding, reaching a valuation of $4 billion (£2.9 billion), almost doubling its previous valuation.

A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital.

UCL School of Management has signed a lease agreement at One Canada Square to increase its office space by 50,000 feet.

A new national network involving UCL, the UK Seaweed Network, has been launched at an event in the UK Parliament, bringing together researchers, industry, policymakers and coastal stakeholders to accelerate the growth of the UK’s seaweed sector.

Congratulations to members of UCL’s community who have been recognised in the New Year Honours 2026, including two academics, an economist and an engineer, who received Damehoods.

A new AI model could help radiologists identify brain abnormalities in MRI scans for neurological conditions such as stroke, multiple sclerosis and brain tumours, in a new study from researchers at UCL and King’s College London.

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and life under the Antarctic ice. We also found lost maps, flew with wasps, and identified an ancient reptile. Here we look back at another extraordinary year.

Startup company eNOugh, founded by UCL alumni, has raised $2.7 million (£2 million) in investment to advance its AI-powered wearable smart badge, designed to act as a personal safety companion.

Writing in The Conversation, PhD candidate Ilya Ilyankou (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) shares his creation, an app that employs AI technology to show users not just faster but safer routes when walking to and from a destination.

Five UCL academics have received prestigious European Union-funded grants to support research for the next five years in projects covering economics, criminal governance, and neuroscience.

A total of 70 UCL academics are featured in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ for 2025, which recognises the most influential researchers in their fields.

Artificial intelligence (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.

The first evidence that humans have the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a form of ‘remote touch’ that birds such as sandpipers have, has been presented in a new study from researchers at UCL and Queen Mary University of London.

The Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Centre (GITCC), a pioneering initiative designed to strengthen UK-Korea industrial research led by UCL, was officially launched at the British Embassy in Seoul.

As a significant number of MPs attend Evidence Week to discuss how scientific evidence can be used to scrutinise policy, Tracey Brown (UCL Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy) highlights how politicians value having reliable data and calls for academics to deliver.