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• UKs largest ever investment into groundbreaking health research

  Date: 14 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/uk2019s-largest-ever-investment-into-ground-breaking-health-research

  Leicester’s hospitals and the Universities of Leicester and Loughborough are set to receive funding of £11m from the Government to make...

• Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth

  Date: 1 Dec 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth

  Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to...

• A change in Leicesters DNA Research Professional features new research institutes

  Date: 1 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/a-change-in-leicester2019s-dna-research-professional-features-new-research-institutes

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise Professor Iain Gillespie (pictured) have...

• PhD student wins prestigious photography competition

  Date: 22 Feb 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-louise-corscadden-infectious-diseases-hub

  University of Leicester student Louise Corscadden wins prestigious photography prize.

• UK bee populations thrive at Botanic Garden

  Date: 13 Sep 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/uk-bee-populations-thrive-at-botanic-garden

  While the Midlands has seen a general decline in bumblebee species numbers over the last few decades – mostly due to the loss of habitat – bee...

• University of Leicester helps bring justice after 30 years

  Date: 28 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-university-of-leicester-helps-bring-justice-after-30-years

  Reviving the original technology of DNA fingerprinting helps bring justice after 30 years to convict rapist DNA fingerprinting tests performed at...

• Leicester academic leads study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine

  Date: 10 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/when-should-blood-transfusions-be-given-after-cardiac-surgery

  Professor Gavin Murphy (pictured), British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiac Surgery in our Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at...

• Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

  Date: 24 Mar 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/covid-19-patients-not-fully-recovered

  The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience...

• Hilberts sixth problem Can physics be axiomatised

  Date: 7 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/hilberts-sixth-problem

  In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert published a set of 23 problems that he felt would further the disciplines of mathematics.

• Crocus Sundays signal the arrival of spring alongside hedgehog display for children

  Date: 25 Feb 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/crocus-sundays-signal-the-spring-alongside-hedgehog-display-for-children

  The springtime blooming of crocuses in the Botanic Garden will this year be accompanied by the unusual sight of thousands of salt-dough hedgehogs...