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From Disease Diagnosis to Bioinspired materials

The career and research of Professor Roy Quinlan was celebrated in a special symposium organised by his Durham Colleagues and hosted by the BSI. The meeting was held in the spirit of Roy’s substantial contribution to collaborative research and was attended by his colleagues from near and far.

Art Inspired by Science - An Exhibition

In January 2024 St Cuthbert’s Society are hosting an exciting new exhibition Art Inspired by Science, which will display a collection of images of biological systems alongside creative responses. These are invited from both creatives and the wider community, especially, Cuth’s students. This forms part of the College's Wider Student Experience programme and is supported by the Biophysical Sciences Institute.
Electron microscope image of Paramecium, courtesy of Dr R W Banks.

New 2023 Art-Science Collaboration Funding  

Image above: a VisualPDE.com simulation “Turing on Turing” courtesy of Dr Andrew Krause, Dr Adam Townsend (Durham University) and Dr Benjamin Walker (University of Bath).
VisualPDE.com simulation “Turing on Turing”

Engineering Biology Hub Award: Environmental Processing and Recovery of Metals

A national consortium involving researchers from Durham have secured £14 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding to help advance the recycling of rare metals.
Gold nuggets

2023 Prize Lectures

In Michaelmas term 2023 we welcomed our Thesis and Howard prize winners to Durham: Dr Katy Cornish (Durham University) and Dr Yuval Elani (Imperial College London).
Howard Lecture 2024

Our Growing Art-Science Community

Our Sharing, late in 2023, brought together our quickly growing community of art-science collaborators. The attendees shared their developing work as well as their experiences of working together, revealing new perspectives and approaches. This aimed to create a pool of shared experience and knowledge that will guide future interactions.  
Dr Lane (Psychology) with artwork

MRC Outstanding Team Impact Prize

A BSI-linked, international team of scientists led by Professor Paul Denny has been awarded The MRC Outstanding Team Impact Prize, which recognises the major impact its collaborative team science approach has made in medical research.
Neglected tropical diseases network team members

The New Northern Eye - Cryo EM for the North East

Along with Newcastle University and Northumbria University, members of the Biophysical Sciences Institute have secured funding from the BBSRC (ALERT) to bring powerful new cryo-electron microscopy tools (cryoEM) to the North East.
Structure of a protein-DNA complex