People, skills and training

Innovators 2013 part three – Peter Mertens and team tackle bluetongue disease

In a series of three articles, BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2013 winners reveal the secrets behind their innovations.

In this, the third, Social Innovator winner Peter Mertens recalls how his group helped prevent the bluetongue disease of sheep becoming endemic in the UK, saving the British economy an estimated £480M in 2008 alone.

BBSRC researchers elected Fellows of the Royal Society

BBSRC would like to congratulate the members of the BBSRC community who have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society. Professor Douglas Kell, Chief Executive, BBSRC said: "We are delighted to see yet more BBSRC-funded researchers continuing to join the ranks of some of the world's most eminent researchers. "BBSRC funds world-leading bioscience and it is wonderful to see acknowledgement of the excellence in our community through election to Fellowship of the Royal Society"…

Entrepreneurial competition embraces young biomedics

A cure for baldness, an instant skin test to diagnose stroke and a patch to administer a course of antibiotics for cats were just a few of the business ideas presented at the inaugural, Biomedical YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme) competition launched last year. Biomedical YES has grown out of the well-established Biotechnology YES organised by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the University of Nottingham's Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI)…