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• University of Leicester wins Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

  Date: 30 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/30-the-award

  University receives Times Higher Education Award for a pioneering kit that enables victims of sexual violence to capture DNA evidence.

• 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...

• Medical student takes part in The One Show’s Rickshaw Challenge

  Date: 26 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/26-medical-student-takes-part-in-rickshaw-challenge

  University of Leicester medical student Phoebe Avbulimen completes the Rickshaw Challenge for Children in Need On Friday 16 November 2018,...

• Richard III’s discovery takes to the stage at the Royal Institution

  Date: 23 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/23-richard-iii-royal-institution-haldene-lecture

  Richard III geneticist Professor Turi King to give prestigious JBS Haldane Lecture on Monday 26 November 2018.

• Check urine to ensure patients are taking blood pressure tablets, researchers urge

  Date: 19 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/19-check-urine-patients-blood-pressure-tablets

  Doctors from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester show simple process may save NHS millions.

• Use genetic data to predict the best time of day to give radiotherapy to breast cancer patients, say Researchers

  Date: 15 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/15-radiotherapy-breast-cancer

  A new clinical study conducted in the HOPE clinical trials facility at Leicester’s Hospitals has revealed the pivotal role that changing the time...

• New BHF-funded research could predict the growth of life-threatening aneurysms before it is too late

  Date: 7 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-aneurysms

  Research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Leicester could reduce the risk of death from a life-threatening aneurysm.

• MRI research that gets to the heart of the matter

  Date: 25 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-mri-research-that-gets-to-the-heart-of-the-matter

  Insight into heart disease to be presented at University of Leicester’s Frank May Prize Lecture 2018 on 29 October

• Research sheds light on genetic processes underlying meningitis and gastroenteritis

  Date: 23 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/24-genetic-processes-underlying-meningitis-and-gastroenteritis

  University of Leicester researchers have developed a computer system to scan large sets of genomes in deadly pathogens

• Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

  Date: 10 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

  Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.