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19 January 2022

Dr Joe Price receives Enterprise Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering

Dr Price has been announced as a winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Enterprise Fellowship for his work with the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering’s spin-out company ‘Evolutor’.

13 January 2022

Steel industry gathers to discuss sustainability

Steel industry gathers to discuss sustainability Professor Peter Styring discusses a carbon capture utilization (CCU) project he is currently developing, called FluRefin in The Chemical Engineer

15 December 2021

Vaccine development and mass-production set to be accelerated by new manufacturing unit

In a project led by Dr Zoltán Kis researchers are developing new ways to rapidly develop and mass manufacture mRNA vaccines and therapeutics at low cost and high quality.

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The University of Sheffield
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