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• Charlotte lands medicine place after Clearing success at Leicester

  Date: 14 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/clearing-charlotte

  Charlotte Ellse didn’t let a GCSE grade hold her back when pursuing her dream of studying medicine – and thanks to Clearing at the University of...

• University launches pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria

  Date: 16 May 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/martha-clokie

  A pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria has officially launched at The University of Leicester.

• A study by a Leicester scientist has answered the 100-year-old question about how chromosomes get their iconic X-shape

  Date: 20 Apr 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/chromosome-x-shape

  A team of researchers led by Professor Daniel Panne at the University of Leicester and Dr Benjamin Rowland at the Netherlands Cancer Institute...

• Pint of Science festival returns to Leicester

  Date: 19 Apr 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pint-of-science

  Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues...

• Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

  Date: 10 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin

  A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage...

• Animals’ ‘sixth sense’ more widespread than previously thought

  Date: 22 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/animal-magnetic

  A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Leicester and Manchester, suggests the animal world’s ability to sense a...

• University of Leicester professor speaks to Government Select Committee about alternative to antibiotics

  Date: 21 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/martha-clokie

  University of Leicester’s Professor of Microbiology Martha Clokie, spoke to MPs about the potential use of phages to fight bacterial infections.

• Phage film receives UK debut at University of Leicester

  Date: 27 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening

  More than 100 researchers, clinicians, and members of the public from across the UK gathered at the University of Leicester for the screening of...

• Openness in animal research among UK’s best

  Date: 23 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leader-in-openness

  The University of Leicester has once again been named as one of the UK’s ‘Leaders in Openness’ by national body Understanding Animal Research.

• Research identifies new family of marine ‘megaphages’

  Date: 21 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/marine-megaphages

  Microbiologists have identified a new family of marine megaphages which could change understanding of Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles.