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, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 83% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
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Edinburgh Innovations provides research and commercialisation expertise to industry, funders, licensees and investors. Our consultancy services make it easy to access the University's academic expertise and state-of-the-art facilities.
- Solving fossil mystery could aid Mars life quest
- Games can protect thinking skills in older age
- Study tracks long term impact of teenage offending
- Wrong advice risk for some memory clinic patients
- Evolving deer give birth earlier as climate warms
- New telescope instrument sheds light on Dark Energy
- Study could aid degenerative disease therapies
