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2020-10-23 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
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Wales’s most promising scientists awarded £3.5m in UK Government Funding to bring pioneering ideas to marketThe UK Government funding grant could help tackle climate change and terminal diseases by providing a to fund scientific research and vital equipment ![]()
Pioneering researchers in Wales will benefit from a £3.5 million cash boost to convert their innovative ideas to transformational products and services, the UK Government announced today (Thursday 15 October). Tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges, including climate change and terminal disease, one hundred of the UK’s up and coming scientists and researchers will receive a share of over £109 million to develop their “blue sky” solutions to global issues such as food supply, cancer diagnosis and dementia treatment. The investment will enable the most promising scientists and researchers in Wales and across the UK, from Edinburgh to Exeter, to fund vital equipment and researcher wages, to help drive forward their studies at speed. Among the next generation of UK science leaders in Wales being backed today include Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly, at Cardiff University. He will explore new ways to identify and treat Parkinson’s Disease, the second-most common neurodegenerative disorder, by spotting early changes in how neurons in the brain are functioning and then developing new drug treatments to prevent or slow the progress of the disease. Science Minister Amanda Solloway said:
Another project receiving funding is being led by Dr Andrew Lloyd, at the University of Aberystwyth, who aims to develop the high nutrition, climate ready and disease resistant crops needed to meet future food needs by drawing on the disease resistance and stress tolerance of living wild crop relatives. Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart said:
UK Research and Innovation Chief Executive, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, said:
The UK Government has committed over £900 million to its Future Leader Fellowship initiative over three years, which is being delivered through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The work of the fellows will be central to the UK Government’s ambition for the UK to become a world leading science superpower, set out in its ambitious R&D Roadmap in July this year. The funding committed to the fellows forms part of the UK Government’s commitment to increase public spending in research and development (R&D) by £22 billion by 2024/25, putting the UK on track to reach 2.4% of GDP being spent on R&D across the UK economy by 2027.
Published 23 October 2020
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来源平台 | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/299902 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
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