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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/higher-education/ethics/resources
Resources for genetics and ethics, links provided by The University of Leicester for students in higher education.
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Research opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/opportunities
Funding The Institute for Precision Health offers numerous funding opportunities to enhance your research and industrial collaborations via the UKRI MRC Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA) award. Funding calls will be announced via the Institute and drugdiscovery@le.ac.
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Alex Whitfield: 'Learning in Living Knowledge'
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/alex-whitfield
Museum Studies graduate Alex Whitfield discusses her life and career after graduating from Leicester with a Masters and a PhD.
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Professionalism – the Wisdom of the Minions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/08/04/professionalism-the-wisdom-of-the-minions/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 4, 2016 Following from the release of the Minions movie, and of course not forgetting their impact via ‘Despicable me’, I must confess to having a feed from their “wisdom of the minions”.
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A new potential treatment pathway for cardiovascular disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/31-trib1-research
A collaborative study involving scientists from the University of Leicester has shown, for the first time, that a protein expressed in a subset of immune cells contributes towards the build-up of fatty deposits in arteries, which leads to cardiovascular disease.
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New targeted oral treatments for severe asthma to be studied
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/18-targeted-oral-treatments-for-severe-asthma
A £2.68 million study to investigate the effective use of antibiotics to treat certain types of severe asthma is being spearheaded by researchers in Leicester.
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Political Cartooning in Côte d’Ivoire: Interview with Lassane Zohoré
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/05/11/political-cartooning-in-cote-divoire-interview-with-lassane-zohore/
Political cartoonist Lassane Zohoré (Côté d'Ivoire) is interviewed by Dr James Illingworth for the Covid in Cartoons project.
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The payslip: effects of the minimum wage?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/payslip
Read the article "The payslip: effects of the minimum wage?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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UKs largest ever investment into groundbreaking health research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/uk2019s-largest-ever-investment-into-ground-breaking-health-research
Leicester’s hospitals and the Universities of Leicester and Loughborough are set to receive funding of £11m from the Government to make world-leading medical breakthroughs, as part of a record package of research funding announced today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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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