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• Engineer creates open-source ventilator for COVID-19 patients

  Date: 15 Dec 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/ventilator

  A University of Leicester-based engineer has created an innovative new ventilator designed to help COVID-19 patients.

• Training the next generation of Black health data scientists

  Date: 8 Dec 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/black-health-data

  The University of Leicester has partnered with Health Data Research UK and BREATHE – The Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health to offer...

• Recruitment begins for ethnic minority healthcare staff COVID research study

  Date: 4 Dec 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/recruitment-begins-for-ethnic-minority-healthcare-staff

  A drive to encourage ethnic minority healthcare workers to participate in a Government-backed study investigating the risks of COVID-19 to their...

• New trial could transform heart health of dialysis patients

  Date: 3 Dec 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/dialysis

  A new trial with the potential to transform the heart health of patients with kidney failure has today been launched by the University of...

• 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...