One of the world’s top research-intensive universities
The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education's REF power ratings), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
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Explore the work of our world-class researchers across a range of cross-disciplinary areas.
Edinburgh Innovations provides research and commercialisation expertise to industry, funders, licensees and investors.
- Promising new drug to manage high blood pressure
- Women key to crop success in low-income countries
- History expert thrives in the art of gaming
- Gene blocks spillover of avian flu to humans
- Drug discovery could aid spinal injury recovery
- Core genes for type 1 diabetes revealed
- Women invited to trial twice-a-year contraceptive jab
How the University community is making its mark upon the world through its research, innovation, ideas and actions.
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