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• Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

  Date: 26 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

  New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air...

• Genomic sequencing confirms breast cancer link between Leicester sisters

  Date: 26 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-sisters-genome

  Two Leicester sisters who had their entire genomes sequenced in the hope of finding answers to their family history of breast cancer have learnt...

• £5 million grant for health science PhD students

  Date: 15 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-wellcome-grant

  The University of Leicester has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £5 million.

• Hollywood actress addresses aortic dissection conference

  Date: 12 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/13-aortic-dissection

  On Thursday 19 September, the University of Leicester plays host to the fourth annual Aortic Dissection Awareness Day UK, an invitation-only event...

• Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting

  Date: 8 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting

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• Electronic frailty index will identify older people at risk

  Date: 28 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/30-frailty-index

  A collaborative study involving Professor Simon Conroy from our Department of Health Sciences has been awarded £550,000 from the NIHR Health...

• New online tool to assess children’s cognitive and language development

  Date: 12 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/13-parca-r

  A paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health provides new standardised scores for the Parent Report of Children’s Abilities Revised...

• UK first for Leicester: ground-breaking software lets surgeon see real-time 3D map of heart

  Date: 11 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/12-cardiac-software

  Innovative software that allows a surgeon to view inside a patient’s heart in real time while applying treatment has been used for the first time...

• Calcium is key to age-related memory loss

  Date: 8 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-presynaptic-calcium

  Research in our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour is offering new clues into how and why cognitive functions such as memory and...

• East Midlands gets £9 million health boost

  Date: 10 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/11-nihr-funding

  An organisation committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the East Midlands by speeding up the adoption of research and innovation into...