Awards Category

Meet the 2026 MacRobert Award finalists

Health and medical
Pioneering pneumonia test for NHS intensive care …
A pioneering rapid pneumonia test for critically ill patients is now being deployed successfully in the UK. The Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia test, or ‘VAP’ test, enables rapid and informed changes to …
Health and medical, Innovation
Rapid DNA sequencing breakthrough wins top UK …
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced Oxford Nanopore Technologies as the winner of the 2026 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation, recognising …
Health and medical, Innovation
Smart wound dressing speeds up healing
Smart wound dressing speeds up healing by triggering body’s own repair signals. A bioinspired material, developed by scientists at Imperial College London, accelerates wound healing and the repair of human …
Awards
Meet the 2026 MacRobert Award finalists
Every year, the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award is presented to the engineers behind the UK’s most exciting engineering innovation. The 2026 MacRobert Award finalists are: WeWALK Smart Cane: …
Awards, Health and medical, Innovation
British-Irish Scientist wins major award for effective …
The European Patent Office (EPO) has awarded Irish-British scientist Sir Adrian Hill the European Inventor Award 2026 in the Research category for developing the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine. According to the …