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Professor Ruth Cameron from ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is one of twelve winners of this year’s Suffrage Science awards. She and the other winners will be honoured at an online celebration today, the tenth anniversary of the scheme. This will be the fifth Suffrage Science awards for engineering and physical sciences.

It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when arteries to the heart are blocked – the heart’s muscle cells start to die. Sanjay Sinha wants to mend these hearts so that they work again. 

So what has the ERC ever done for us? Quite a lot, say ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ academics, as they mark the 10th anniversary of Europe’s premier research-funding body

Miniature scaffolds made from collagen – the ‘glue’ that holds our bodies together – are being used to heal damaged joints, and could be used to develop new cancer therapies or help repair the heart after a heart attack.