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• Decoding gigantic insect genome could help tackle devastating locust crises

  Date: 19 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/locusts

  A ‘game changing’ study deciphering the genetic material of the desert locust by researchers at the University of Leicester, could help combat the...

• COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

  Date: 12 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity

  According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

• Leicester professor helps combat worldwide diabetes-related chronic kidney disease

  Date: 10 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/diabetes-kidney-disease

  A University of Leicester-based Professor has helped draft guidelines that will help improve global outcomes for a diabetes-related complication.

• Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription

  Date: 2 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds

  A new study has demonstrated that using  the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can...

• Supporting student wellbeing at the University of Leicester

  Date: 19 Oct 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/supporting-student-wellbeing

  Plans to support students’ mental health and wellbeing, ensuring that all students, whether they are self-isolating or not, have the support they...

• Professor Mick Peake awarded OBE

  Date: 10 Oct 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/professor-mick-peake-awarded-obe

  Professor Michael (Mick) Peake has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to medicine.

• Keeping our community safe

  Date: 30 Sep 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/keeping-our-community-safe

  University of Leicester has set out the plans it has put in place to protect students, staff and the community against the risks of COVID-19...

• Safe Citizen Promise

  Date: 25 Sep 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/safe-citizen-promise

  Comprised of six guiding principles which staff and students pledge to uphold and follow, the Safe Citizen Promise seeks to minimise the impact of...

• We are one community: De Montfort and Leicester students pledge to protect against COVID-19

  Date: 22 Sep 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/de-montfort-and-leicester-students-pledge-to-protect-against-covid19

  Students from the University of Leicester and De Montfort University have pledged to help protect themselves and others in the community from...

• University of Leicester experts urge Britain to get on its feet

  Date: 20 Sep 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/sitting

  To mark On Your Feet Britain Day, researchers at the University of Leicester are urging workers across the country to take part in the SMART Work...