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The endorsed funderpathway of the Global Talent visa (GTV), managed by UKRI, has been expanded to include over 100 UK research-intensive businesses. The GTV is a key UK research visa, supporting the most exceptional minds from across the globe to work on funded research projects at UK research-intensive businesses. The flexible visa allows individuals to move between projects and enhance high-growth sectors. So far, through the endorsed funderpathway, UKRI has helped over 12,500 talented people from over 130 different countries to continue building their research careers in the UK. Now,…

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From new ways to treat aggressive cancers to replacing polluting plastics with plants, UKRI is advancing knowledge, improving lives and driving growth. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has published its annual report and accounts for the 2025 to 2026 financial year, which looks at the range of research and innovation it has supported. Highlights include: supporting the development of a promising new antibiotic that’s effective against drug-resistant diseases, like MRSA investing in new solar cells that can use indoor light to produce electricity revealing 2,000 hidden galaxies, to better understand…

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Midlands Mindforge, the investment company dedicated to supporting university spinouts in the Midlands, has completed its first round of investments. Marking a major milestone in scaling high‑potential, research‑led businesses emerging from the Midlands, this will help unlock an initial £30 million of capital into the region. This active investment stage follows support from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (through Research England) along with the: Mayors of the East and West Midlands Rigby Group Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) via the Invest in UK University Research and Development (R&D)…

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The centre, a UKRI investment funded through the government’s Gambling Levy, will direct world-leading research on how to tackle and prevent gambling harms.  Harmful gambling’s burden on the UK economy is conservatively estimated at around £1.4 billion per year. This impacts the healthcare and criminal justice systems as well as generating individual impacts such as depression and suicide. A lack of high‑quality independent evidence on gambling-related harms is a major barrier to effective policy, prevention, and treatment. Generating evidence-led research The Gambling Harms Research UK (GHR-UK) Evidence Centre will work with government, health bodies, charities, people with lived experience of gambling. As well as the wider…

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