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• Over £20 million government award marks Midlands’ bio-economy strengths

  Date: 23 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/24-bbsrc-dtps

  A consortium of Midlands research-active universities, including the University of Leicester, has just been awarded research studentships worth...

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  Date: 13 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• 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.

• 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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• Leicester technician wins prestigious Papin Prize

  Date: 25 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-lory-francescut-papin-prize-hets

  A technician from the University of Leicester has won a prestigious Papin Prize at the Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS) conference in...

• Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system

  Date: 25 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system

  An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of...

• Leicester named ‘Leader in Openness’ by Understanding Animal Research

  Date: 29 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/30-openness-award-animal-research

  The University of Leicester has received a Leader in Openness Award for the period 2019-2022 from Understanding Animal Research.

• Two Leicester professors join prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship

  Date: 7 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/08-academy-medical-sciences-fellows

  The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected Leicester’s Professor Chris Brightling and Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga to their esteemed...

• Prestigious Japanese documentary features Leicester researchers

  Date: 2 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-nhk-documentary-genomics

  Japanese broadcaster NHK will feature the University of Leicester in a documentary show ‘NHK Special’, which will focus on developments in genomics.