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9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield ranked within top 100 universities in QS World 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Rankings

9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ has been ranked within the top 100 universities in the world in the QS World 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Rankings 2026, reaffirming its place as a leading global university for teaching and research excellence.
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An illustration of protein molecules. Credit: Getty

AI could accelerate protein engineering – key for developing new medicines

An AI approach developed by researchers from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and AstraZeneca, could make it easier to design proteins needed for new treatments.
Dr Zheng Yuan

A warm welcome to Dr Zheng Yuan who joins the School of Computer Science

Dr Zheng Yuan joins us in her role as Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing.
The 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25) in Sheffield

School of Computer Science hosts the 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25)

The event was hosted here at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield between 7 and 11 April 2025.
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Scientists to develop pain-free device to detect oral cancer

A research collaboration has been awarded £1m in funding from SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England initiative – to test and develop a pain-free, non-invasive and instantaneous method to detect oral cancer.

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Chatbots could be used to deliver psychotherapy during Covid-19 and beyond

Chatbots could play a key role in helping people with issues around their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by Dr Matthew Bennion from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ’s Department of Computer Science.
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Researchers develop Artificial Intelligence to prevent new waves of COVID-19

One of our research students has helped develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) ti predict COVID-19 from standard blood tests two weeks earlier that current, existing tests.

Prof. Roger K. Moore

Congratulations to Prof. Roger K. Moore who has been invited to give one of the INTERSPEECH-2020 tutorials!

INTERSPEECH is the main conference in the spoken language processing field. It is organised by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and it attracts over 1000 attendees every year.
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Sheffield scientists sequence over 1,000 Covid-19 genomes to aid pandemic response

Dr Dennis Wang is part of a team who have now produced over 1,000 sequences of the coronavirus genome. The work has been done by scientists and clinicians from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.