The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang to support autism research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university.

An entrepreneurial alumnus whose time at Cambridge helped him develop his fascination with computers into a string of successful businesses is endowing a professorship and a PhD studentship at the Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Businessman and philanthropist Andrew Barnes ONZM is donating £10 million to the University of Cambridge to establish the Charlotte Lockhart Precision Breast Cancer Institute, named after his beloved partner, who has terminal breast cancer.

A generous philanthropic gift from Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) will support a major new research initiative at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI), focused on understanding how emerging technologies, including generative AI, are shaping digital wellbeing across the UK. 

Record-breaking donation will enable new School to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to tackle the world’s biggest problems.

Thanks to Niccolo de Masi (Clare 1998) and his visionary idea, Cambridge has recently launched a groundbreaking project.

Launched on 3 March through the Institut Pasteur and Pasteur Foundation, the 2026 Lady Mireille & Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowship is a distinguished two-year postdoctoral programme based at Institut Pasteur in Paris.

The University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the launch of Cambridge x QRT Labs, part of a major new philanthropic partnership supported by Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) that brings together researchers from Cambridge, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford.

Quantum technology research at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory will benefit from a new collaboration with FormationQ, an independent platform for quantum adoption and application, to help speed translation of the University’s frontier research into real-world applications.

A new cohort of brilliant young mathematicians to join the University of Cambridge with more than thirty new PhDs and Postdoc opportunities created thanks to this generous donation.

The University of Cambridge is delighted to announce a landmark gift of £3.6 million from the Government of Ireland, awarded on the basis of establishing the Childers Professorship of Irish History. This marks a renewed commitment to deepening the study of Irish history at Cambridge and to strengthening Anglo-Irish academic collaboration.

At a time when demand for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills surpasses supply, too many talented students still face barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential at school and university.

The University of Cambridge is proud to be part of the expanded Martingale Foundation postgraduate scholarship programme, which has pledged to support 800 exceptional STEM scholars by 2030.

The Early Cancer Innovation Institute (ECII), a key function in the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, has been awarded funding for world-leading multidisciplinary research on detecting cancer at its earliest stages.

Joint major gift to Cambridge and Oxford Universities helps boost initiatives to address challenges in science education and increase the number of pupils progressing to STEM degrees

The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute (VPD-HLRI) and Selwyn College are delighted to announce the establishment of a newly endowed PhD scholarship, The Raymond C. Read and Lillian J. Gostick PhD Studentship, which will focus on epidemiology, public health, global health, or infectious disease research.

A cornerstone commitment from local alumnus Hugh Mumford, and further giving from sports alumni, has made the installation of a new Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) possible by the end of October this year.

NHS patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, will become the first in the UK and Europe to undergo incisionless ultrasound surgery using a cutting-edge ‘histotripsy machine’ as part of their cancer care.

Sabarisan Vedamurthy, a technology entrepreneur, and his wife Senthamarai Stalin, daughter of the Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have decided to support research at the University of Cambridge on the progressive social and economic policies of the South Indian region, the impacts of which have not been widely studied outside of India.

A new donation from Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) will support research at the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, on designing public institutions best suited to bringing clean energy technologies to market

Ten years after he completed his PhD, thanks to a scholarship he received, alumnus Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is giving another student the same opportunity

A love of education and helping others has prompted a Canadian-born entrepreneur to donate a further £5 million to support the University of Cambridge institute which already bears his name.

Thanks to a generous £5.25 million donation to the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, a team of scientists and policy researchers have launched the Engineered Pandemics Risk Management Programme.

Christina and Peter Dawson have made a pioneering gift to establish a Professorship of Young People’s Mental Health. This builds on their previous giving to student mental health and wellbeing and will provide a unique and transformational addition to mental health research at Cambridge and beyond.

Sport at Downing has received a welcome boost thanks to a generous gift from Downing alumnus, Richard Baker (1981).