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• New heart attack genes discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

  Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

• University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview

  A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries available online.

• Leicester academics message to returning British astronaut Tim Peake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-academics2019-message-to-returning-british-astronaut-tim-peake

  Space scientists from our University have praised the successful completion of British astronaut Tim Peake’s six month mission aboard the International Space Station.

• Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings

  The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.

• Is there life on Mars?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/15-is-there-life-on-mars

  BBC Life on Mars BBC Camera Crew filming University academic|The university of Leicester is working closely with NASA and the European Space Agency to determine the age-old question, is there life on Mars? Mars Sample Return is happening with the launch of NASA’s Mars 2020...

• Leicester International Institute, Dalian University of Technology 大连理工大学莱斯特国际学院

  https://le.ac.uk/dalian

  The Leicester International Institute was established on 24th March 2017 as a Sino-foreign cooperative educational institution with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

• External examining

  https://le.ac.uk/study/external-examining

  External Examiner Handbook This handbook provides information for external examiners for taught programmes at the University of Leicester. It contains information about: regulations and procedures duties of external examiners how the University will consider reports.

• Graduate Internship Programme 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/career-development-service/internship

  Learn more about the Graduate Internship Programme from the Careers and Employability Service.

• Coronavirus or hay fever? Leicester academics share guidance on symptoms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/10-coronavirus-hay-fever

  A tree branch in the shape of lungs|Warm weather over the Easter weekend and a new burst of birch pollen in the air has set off hay fever symptoms for millions of sufferers across the UK, however in the recent climate, concerns have been raised about whether their symptoms...

• Dr Heather Couper CBE (1949-2020)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/campus-development/freemens/freemens-building-names/dr-heather-couper-cbe

  Find more about Dr Heather Couper CBE (1949-2020)