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• Centre launches to put empathy at the heart of healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/empathy

  The role empathy plays in helping to improve patient satisfaction and reduce their pain is at the heart of a new healthcare research centre at the University of Leicester.

• Clearing 2024: Missing out on first choice university turned out to be a blessing for Charlotte

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/clearing-charlotte

  For Charlotte Gallo not getting the grades she needed to her first choice university turned out to be a blessing as she joined the University of Leicester's Psychology course instead

• University of Leicester launches philanthropic campaign and signs historic partnership in Canada

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/university-leicester-launches-philanthropic-campaign-historic-partnership-canada

  A Leicester delegation travelled to Canada to launch the 2121: Founders of the Future campaign, which aims to raise £100m.

• Professor Raymond Dalgleish's projects

  https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects/dalgleish

  Browse the PhD projects offered for supervision by Professor Raymond Dalgleish in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester medical students win national competition on social media safety

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/medical-students-social-media-safety

  Four medical students from Leicester Medical School have won a UK-wide competition on professionalism held by the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC).

• New ‘explant’ technique predicts a tumour’s responsiveness to breast cancer treatment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/breast-cancer

  Cancer researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a technique that could predict how well some breast cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy and antibody-directed cancer treatments

• Getting stuck into mucus to find new treatments for severe asthma

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/mucus-asthma-study-leicester

  Leicester is among an international group of experts in respiratory medicine to receive funding to better understand how mucus is controlled in the lungs and how this contributes to severe asthma

• Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2

  New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...

• Toolkit to tackle potentially deadly opioid over prescription to be rolled out across parts of England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/opioids-over-subscription

  Leicester researchers are working with NHS partners in the East of England to lead the way in delivering the NHS’ goal of halving the amount of opioids prescribed for non-cancer pain by 2024.

• Hamish Simpson

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/hamish-simpson

  We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Hamish Simpson, former Professor of Paediatrics, who passed away on 4 March 2025, aged 91. Hamish Simpson was born on 23 December 1933 in Glasgow.