Medicine

Charity commits more than £70 million to research projects that approach ambitious, unresolved challenges in cancer research

Novo Nordisk to invest £115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Only diligence and vigilance can keep us ahead of microorganisms that make us ill, Helen Bynum says

During a hospital stay, Emily Michelson learned why the humanities and sciences are in no way opposites

Helen Bynum on a multilayered tale of an illness’ history that takes in art, science and more

Final-year Edinburgh student is first Scottish undergraduate to win such an award and could be first in the UK 

A study probes a silent global epidemic: addiction to prescription medication, says David Healy

Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don’t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn

Marcus Chown on a deeply political study that explains why inequality exists and that while ending it will not be easy, it is not impossible

We talk about growing up in the North East of England, alcohol consumption advice and international cricket aspirations with Newcastle University's new head

Budget scrutiny is emphasising the importance of effective translational research, says Graham Lord, who believes international cooperation is key to ensuring research reaps practical rewards

Times Higher Education analysis reveals the institutions with the most affiliated Nobel prizewinners this century

New Hong Kong centre for leading Swedish university will aim to build medical research links across continents

If lab misconduct is linked to personality traits, there is a case for assessing these when hiring scientists, say researchers

Billy Bryan and Furaha Asani look at how to get the most out of your doctoral studies

We talk doctor supply, the importance of medical research and impostor syndrome with the new Medical Schools Council chair

Japanese biologist awarded for his research on autophagy 

Eight subject rankings reveal elite group of 14 US and European universities thriving across disciplines

Citation analysis reveals potential winners of science’s highest accolade

Peter Mathieson says being part of UN HeForShe initiative will allow the university to improve female representation

The separation of science and medicine from universities is halting the country’s progress, says international higher education scholar

Helen Bynum on a study of current immunisation practices in North America and the rise of the home-grown expert

We talk tuberculosis, tough decisions and pancake races with the Manchester vice-chancellor

Results of NUS survey appear to reflect university leavers’ experience in job market

Bugewa Apampa becomes one of just 18 black women with UK professorships

A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed

Vice-chancellor predicts that sector’s ‘slightly snobbish’ attitude will be swiftly eroded

Study finds that on average graduates in the country earn more than non-graduates 

A pioneering researcher into the viruses that can cause cancer has died

No staff will be lost, says Durham vice-chancellor

Hundreds of students at Europe’s largest postgraduate dental school may have been awarded the wrong marks thanks to form-filling blunders

DLHE survey also reveals that more university leavers are going into professional jobs

What are the downsides to being able to monitor so many physical activities? asks Marcus Chown

Jisc/RLUK study charts sector’s shift towards making research freely available online

Book of the week: In between what we know is good or bad for us is the rest of medical science, says Jennifer Rohn

Committee of MPs comes to no firm conclusion on whether common framework for research and commercialisation is good for the UK

Concerns over low contact hours and delays in handing back assignments loom large in Hepi/HEA survey

First Regius posts for Wales and Northern Ireland in expansion marking Queen's 90th birthday

A punchy whodunnit is backed with plain talk of misogyny, says Helen Bynum

University’s new MSc teaches doctors how to overcome the psychological and logistical challenges of working in remote regions

Joanna Bourke on a memoir focusing on secrets, grief and desire following a life-changing accident

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates

We talk tours of duty, support for veterans and the travails of following Aston Villa with Chester’s new nursing professor

Negative stories including collapse of Kids Company appear to be making the public more wary of major research funders

Wellcome Trust Monitor Report finds more certainty about the benefits of breakthroughs, but a mixed picture of general scientific knowledge

A skilful and charismatic ‘drug hunter’ has died

Education City's spending for stateside outposts pieced together by The Washington Post

Non-EU citizens took one in five new posts over past decade, leaving 40 per cent of posts for UK researchers, Hefce figures show

University of Salford exhibition dedicated to the subject of childbirth is expanded

UK among the worst performers in analysis of 69 national academies

No more than 75 per cent of a discipline’s students should be of the same gender, says funding council

BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves

Book of the week: In an extraordinary voice, a neurosurgeon wrestles with his looming untimely death, says Jennifer Rohn

A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim

Committee of MPs hears that effort to conduct vaccine and treatment trials during outbreak in West Africa was ‘uncoordinated’

After a man dies following a clinical trial in France, Christopher Roy-Toole asks whether lessons were learned after a similar incident in the UK

We talk to the research council CEO about pharmaceutical drugs modelling and a childhood interest in studying animal remains

Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies

Plos Biology launches new section looking at how experiments are run and incentive systems for scientists

A leading researcher on diseases spread by insects and ways of combating them has died