Plant Science to Address Global Research Challenges
To complement our discovery science, we have framed three overarching Research Challenges that capture our major translational and outreach activities; all staff contribute to at least one of these strategic goals.
- Global Food Security
- Growing a Sustainable Bioeconomy
- Protecting the Environment
Coordinating initiatives facilitate new collaborations
The Department is home to a unique concentration of initiatives designed to facilitate new collaborations and knowledge exchange. These teams were recognised within the University for their excellence with the ‘Professional Services Recognition Scheme’ in December 2018.
More information can be found on their respective websites:
- CambPlants Hub - a point of coordination for all plant-related activities across the University, facilitating efforts to put plant research into practice.
- Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre – a virtual network of researchers across the University, supporting collaborative research to address the issues surrounding food security at local, national and international scales.
- Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative – a network bringing together researchers in the field of synthetic biology, and coordinating the Cambridge aspects of OpenPlant.
Additionally, outside of the Department, we have strong links with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and Energy@Cambridge. We are also a founding partner in the EIT Food initiative, a €400M European translational partnership to promote consumer health and nutrition through crop science, supply chain analysis and training programmes.
We are always looking to build our links with researchers and industry worldwide – please do get in touch (info@cambplants.group.cam.ac.uk) if you would like to speak further.