Bone health, the re-use of waste water and cosmology in the Middle Ages are among the research projects to be funded under the first Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary Research (APEX) Awards.
The Royal Society announced six winners in the first round of the APEX Awards—financed by the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering; the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust—on 27 October.
The award was launched in November 2016 to support interdisciplinary research that is unlikely to be supported through conventional funding programmes.
Read more at: https://royalsociety.org/news/2017/10/first-recipients-of-APEX-awards-announced/