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24 February 2026

Turning up the signal for the UK Human and Health Data Communities

HDR UK joins ELIXIR-UK to amplify voices and exchange knowledge across the UK human data research infrastructure and health data landscapes.

11 February 2026

Measuring progress on gender balance in ELIXIR leadership

A new case study from ELIXIR’s leadership and diversity mentoring programme, ELEAD, shows early evidence that the initiative is supporting women’s progression into leadership roles and contributing to culture change […]

11 February 2026

ELIXIR-UK members awarded DisCouRSE Flexible Funding for inclusive dRTP leadership pilot

Members are awarded DisCouRSE Flexible Fund support for PeerLadder, a new peer-mentoring pilot advancing inclusive leadership for digital Research Technical Professionals across UK research-performing organisations.

9 February 2026

Contributing to national discussions on training for digital research professionals

ELIXIR-UK contributed to a national meeting on strengthening and coordinating training provision for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs), highlighting its role in life science training and data stewardship through national and European infrastructure.

8 December 2025

University of Warwick joins ELIXIR-UK to strengthen UK bioinformatics support

The University of Warwick has joined ELIXIR-UK, strengthening national bioinformatics and digital health support. Warwick contributes extensive training expertise, a growing Bioinformatics Clinic model, and international resources.

3 December 2025

ELIXIR-UK members selected for the BioFAIR Fellowship

5 members of the ELIXIR-UK community have been selected for the inaugural national Fellowship supporting FAIR data and workflow practices across the UK. Their involvement reflects ELIXIR-UK’s growing role in strengthening reproducibility, interoperability and capability within UK life sciences.

ELIXIR-UK members at the 2025 Biohackathon
2 December 2025

ELIXIR-UK contributions to BioHackathon Europe 2025

Earlier this month, ELIXIR-UK contributors took part in BioHackathon Europe 2025, leading and supporting projects that advanced FAIR data, benchmarking, interoperability and sustainable workflow development across the ELIXIR ecosystem.

Carole Goble, ELIXIR-UK, at executive table at Falling Walls, Germany 2025
26 November 2025

ELIXIR-UK’s Head of Node contributes to key discussions in the German research infrastructure landscape

Professor Carole Goble represented ELIXIR-UK at two major meetings in the German research-infrastructure landscape, contributing her expertise on data workflows, AI-enabling infrastructures and the future of interoperable research systems.

Group photo at the ELIXIR-UK All hands meeting in Exeter 2025
12 November 2025

ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2025: AI, data and community at the University of Exeter

Over 70 participants from 31 organisations met in Exeter for the ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2025 to discuss AI, FAIR data and the future of UK research infrastructure.

28 October 2025

ELIXIR joins forces to strengthen life science capacity within the European Open Science Cloud

ELIXIR, Euro-BioImaging, Instruct-ERIC and EMBL launch the EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node to strengthen FAIR and interoperable data in life sciences.