Ten years ago, Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings established the Lady Mireille & Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowships in partnership with the University of Cambridge and Institut Pasteur.

How ‘two amazing people’ addressed the ​urgent need​ for postgraduate funding for climate solutions research.

Evidence provided by Professor Gordon Harold and the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Research and Professional Practice Programme informed the inquiry that contributed to Sir Keir Starmer’s official apology on behalf of the UK Government for historic forced adoption practices in England, delivered in Parliament on 2 July 2026.

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.

Daniel Baumann has been appointed as the inaugural Stephen W Hawking Professor of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

Three young women from Ghana who grew up thinking that finishing high school, let alone going to university, might be an impossible dream are preparing to graduate with Masters degrees from Cambridge.