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News & Updates
News & Updates
New initiative seeks locals with business ideas to tackle health and care challenges
A groundbreaking initiative to tackle health and care inequalities in Liverpool City Region communities has launched, which will put power firmly in the hands of those with experience of health and care challenges on the ground.
New Strategic Partnership for The Pandemic Institute
The partnership will bring the organisations together to work more closely on pandemic preparedness, as well as strengthen industry and academic links in the Liverpool City Region.
Drones, swabs and robotic dogs feature in latest Future Innovators Programme tour
The Future Innovators Programme encourages young people to learn about the innovation, science and technology career opportunities available in KQ Liverpool, with an aim of creating tangible aspirations.
iiCON strengthens team with senior appointment
Professor Kot, a global expert in sensor technology, joins the consortium, which works propel the discovery and development of innovative treatments and products for infectious diseases, as Senior Business Development Manager.
The Pandemic Institute to host Pint of Science event
The Pandemic Institute is taking part in the national Pints of Science initiative at pubs across Liverpool from 13 to 15 May 2024, including a special event hosted by Director Professor Tom Solomon CBE on 14 May at Leaf on Bold Street.
Vice-Chancellor’s Conference maps out a more successful future for Liverpool
More than 170 key figures from Liverpool City Region organisations attended the University of Liverpool Vice Chancellor’s Conference, to hear local and national viewpoints on Liverpool’s future success.
University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospitals sign MOU
Senior leaders from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance plans for an Academic Health Sciences Campus on the site of the former Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Liverpool led way in reopening big cultural events
While the rest of the world watched on, we worked with our world-leading scientists, researchers and our ethical Civic Data Cooperative, to safely reopen our visitor economy to the public.
£6.9M funding to better understand child mental health
The findings from this funded study will inform new methods for preventing and treating adverse mental health conditions in children.
New Mental Health Research Centre is established in KQ Liverpool
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool have teamed up to create the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC).
Liverpool to benefit from £23.4M boost for National Biofilms Innovation Centre
The new funding package will build upon NBIC’s collective strength as the UK’s national centre and support the continued expansion of world-class research and innovation.
Digital Innovation Facility officially opened
The DIF is a £12.7 million Centre of Excellence in emerging digital technologies and a key addition to the science and technology facilities in Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter.
£1.3M to develop the Low Carbon Chemistry Lab of the Future
The University of Liverpool's Materials Innovation Factory has been awarded funding from Research England to develop the Low Carbon Chemistry Lab of the Future.
John Lennon's son opens Yoko Ono performance centre
Sean Ono Lennon officially unveiled the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, home to the University of Liverpool's new 400-seat concert hall, The Tung Auditorium.
Bruntwood SciTech Finalise Science Deal
After a competitive and legally thorough process, the owners of Sciontec Liverpool finalised contracts today, making Bruntwood SciTech a 25% shareholder in the company, which operates Liverpool Science Park.
UoL Uses 3D Printing to Help the NHS
Engineers at the University of Liverpool are using their expertise in 3D printing and laser cutting technologies to produce protective visors for use by local hospitals.
University of Liverpool spin out company secures £300k to develop new indoor air pollution technology
New University of Liverpool spin out company, CageCapture, has secured £300k funding from Innovate UK to take forward technology to remove toxic pollutants from the air.
City Stakeholder Event
On the 23rd of October, the marketing team at KQ Liverpool attended an insightful city stakeholder event hosted by the Liverpool City Council. It took place in the stunning Cunard building, which Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, was quick to compliment in terms of its South African rosewood interior and its history in the maritime industry.
Sciontec Liverpool Announces Preferred Bidder
Sciontec Liverpool’s vision for a globally-facing 21stcentury knowledge-economy moved forward today as a major partnership to help unlock growth in the science and technology sector was announced.
£5m boost for University’s Digital Innovation Factory
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has agreed to provide £5 million funding, from its Single Investment Fund, for a new University development that could create more than 400 jobs.