Biodiversity

Studying organisms across the five kingdoms, find out how our research is helping answer the big questions about past, present and future biodiversity.

Drug Discovery and Therapeutics

Through both prevention and cure, our research in drug discovery and therapeutics addresses the major health challenges of our times.

Evolution

We study the evolutionary process from micro to macro-evolution to resolve key problems in fundamental, applied and evolution education research.

Food Security

From plant immune systems to synthetic biology, find out how we're helping increase crop plant resilience against extreme temperatures, drought, and pathogens.

Infection and antimicrobial resistance

Discover how we're addressing the rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the challenges of emerging microbes with epidemic and pandemic potential.

Life Course

From conception to death, our research addresses developmental and homeostatic mechanisms and the detection, treatment and prevention of their dysfunction.

Centre for Therapeutic Innovation

We transform innovation, arisen from basic research, to diagnostics and prognostics, medicines design and delivery, leading to personalised medicine.

Milner Centre for Evolution

We are a unique, cross-faculty research centre bridging biology, health and education.

Cancer Research at Bath

Our mission is to improve cancer patient outcomes by fostering links between Bath’s scientists and clinicians.

Centre for Mathematical Biology

We translate living systems into mathematical models in order to make quantitative predictions and inform biological experiments.

Neuroscience network

An interdisciplinary group from psychology, biology and biochemistry, pharmacy and pharmacology, physics and computer science and local hospital research teams.

Treatment for drug addiction: how do patients cope in lockdown?

Despite big changes to their medication regimens, people being treated for drug addiction appear to be coping well in the pandemic.

New tool identifies which cancer patients are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy

A new prognostic tool developed by an international team led by CTI-Bath paves the way for personalised medicine for cancer patients.

Easy to overdose on paracetamol if you’re selenium deficient, says research

People low on selenium are at risk of paracetamol overdose, even when they follow dosage recommendations, according to research involving Bath.

New drug discoveries are closely linked to the quality of lab procedures

High-quality lab procedures are even more crucial to identifying effective drugs than previously thought, new research from the University of Bath reveals.

Injections are two-and-a-half times safer when nurses use revamped guidelines

The NHS is changing the way it writes its guidelines for giving injections in hospitals, following groundbreaking research from the University of Bath.

Scientists behind needle-free diabetes monitor are finalists in a prestigious competition

A Bath team has been shortlisted for this year’s Emerging Technologies Competition run by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Simplifying the search for successful antibodies

CiteAb, a new impartial citation-based search engine, is shaking up the $2 billion antibody industry.

Research boost to find treatments for 'undruggable' cancers

Bath researchers collaborate with Sapience Therapeutics to find new treatments for cancer cell targets that don't respond to other drugs.

Unique protein structures could hold the key to treatment for Parkinson’s disease

Bath scientists have discovered a series of protein structures that are thought to be highly relevant to the onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Nanodevices show how cells change with time, by tracking from the inside

For the first time, scientists have added microscopic tracking devices into the interior of living cells, giving a peek into how development starts.

Intensive farming increases risk of epidemics, warn scientists

Overuse of antibiotics, high animal numbers and low genetic diversity from intensive farming increase the risk of animal pathogens transferring to humans.

We are mutating SARS-CoV-2, but it is evolving back

Scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution looked at the evolution of the virus that causes Covid19; their findings could help the design of a new vaccine.

Light Microscopy Research Network at Bath

The light microscopy network at Bath provides its users with advanced level confocal and fluorescent microscopes as well as training and advice.

Biotechnology Facility

A multi-user facility providing protein expression and purification services to researchers across the University and beyond.

Cryo-EM - GW4 Cryo-Electron Microscopy

This GW4 facility is located in Bristol and provides access to cryo-microscopy and analysis tools to study molecular processes responsible for cell function.

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies

Bath hosted multidisciplinary CDT, exploring the boundaries between chemical sciences and engineering.

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistical Applied Mathematics (SAMBa)

Delivering excellent training and research at the interface of applied mathematics, numerical analysis, probability, and statistics.

MRC GW4 BioMed Doctoral Training Partnership

The GW4 BioMed MRC Doctoral Training Partnership aims to develop both medical and non-medical students into the next generation of medical researchers.

NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership in environmental sciences

NERC GW4+ DTP in environmental sciences is a community of Earth, Environmental and Life Scientists.

BBSRC South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWBio DTP) in food security & bioscience

SWBio DTP in food security & bioscience trains PhD students in the biosciences for leadership positions in academia, industry and beyond.

Postgraduate research degrees in Life Sciences

Find out about our PhD degrees, funding opportunities and how to apply.