At the heart of St John’s is an international community of leading academics who, across the sciences and the humanities, are pushing at the frontiers of knowledge

Since Paul Dirac, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist from St John’s, first co-founded quantum mechanics, there has been a century of scientific discovery
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Award-winning Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind, Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, awarded an Honorary Fellowship

A postgraduate researcher at St John’s College says the structure governing cooperation across the UK lacks transparency and oversight

Fellow researching architecture of Indigenous people of the Nordic countries and Russia among academy's new cohort

St John’s scientist leads mother and baby mental health project spanning climate science, psychology, and perinatal wellbeing

St John’s PhD student will lead University workshops focused on digital research methods and tools

St John’s historian uses census data to show many middle-class Mancunians lived in the same buildings as working-class residents

A bitesize digital series celebrating some of the UK’s most original thinkers has been launched to showcase the power and public value of research

Discovery holds potential to simulate blood disorders like leukaemia, and to produce long-lasting blood stem cells for transplants

Sex, ambition and betrayal – the ingredients of a modern political scandal were alive and well in Ancient Rome

St John's researcher develops sustainable way to make the chemicals found in thousands of products – from plastics to cosmetics

Cambridge scientists discover how probiotics may help prevent miscarriages, gestational diabetes and preeclampsia

St John’s academic and former national cricketer says his affordable bamboo bat design will make cricket more accessible worldwide

“Our findings point to a survival gap that begins before patients even reach the operating theatre”

Professor Robert Mullins co-founds major new artificial intelligence initiative to drive UK research and innovation

‘Hidden disease’ that kills thousands of women and babies a year to be tackled

Mapping of a key brain enzyme reveals links to childhood disability and cancer – and could unlock new drug therapies

Physicists receive grant to pave way for groundbreaking quantum technologies

Network led by a St John’s biologist works to transform understanding of women’s medical research and care

Academics secure major support for pioneering work in quantum optical science and dyslexia
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New approach led by St John's Fellow is improving survival rates for women with breast cancer
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A state-of-the-art facility designed to push the boundaries of what is possible

“I feel an immense gratitude to my team for all the wonderful science that we do together”

New research by a College Fellow is challenging assumptions about how best to use renewable electricity in green ammonia production, offering ways that could make it more cost-effective

Online technologies from social media to AI are changing too fast for scientific infrastructure to gauge their public health harms, say two leaders in their field

"It’s like working with a Lego set with every kind of shape you can imagine, rather than just rectangular bricks"

Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing

This grant will allow us to understand how our bodies react to these modern medicines

Cambridge researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source.

A PhD student from St John’s has won a 2025 Cavendish Annual Thesis Prize for his achievements in quantum physics that could advance display and solar technology