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Leicester strikes partnership with biotech experts Isogenica to develop personalised cancer treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/ktp
Patients could benefit from bespoke cancer-fighting treatments with fewer side effects thanks to a new partnership between a biotech company and a UK university.
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Attenborough Arts to host British artist’s largest solo exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/11-aaron-williamson-attenborough-arts
A new exhibition of the work of renowned British artist Aaron Williamson opens at the University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre on Saturday 11 May 2019.
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A celebration of 100 years ago today, by Caroline Wessel
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/04/a-celebration-of-100-years-ago-today-by-caroline-wessel/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 4, 2019 Newspaper cuttings reporting Fielding Johnson’s Gift, from Astley Clarke’s scrapbook (ULA/D2/1) On Friday 4 April 1919 Mr Thomas Fielding Johnson purchased the 36-acre site of Leicester’s 5th Northern Base...
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...
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reproducibility and coding style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/teachingr/2020/09/28/reproducibility-and-style/
discuss of the way that reproducibility and coding style are taught on my introductory short course om data analysis with R and the tidyverse
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The schoolboy sketches of John Leech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...
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Introducing… the Leicester Grading System for Foveal Hypoplasia
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/12-leicester-foveal-scale
A team of eye researchers have published the first medical grading system named after the city of Leicester.
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Academic clinical fellow wins Research Bursary and NIHR Poster Prize
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/academic-clinical-fellow-wins-research-bursary-and-nihr-poster-prize
An Academic clinical fellow from our University’s College of Life Sciences has recently been awarded a Cancer Research UK Research Bursary and NIHR poster prize for his ACF research project.
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Psychology student puts her knowledge into practice by helping those with mental health concerns in Sri Lanka
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/university-of-leicester-psychology-student-puts-her-knowledge-into-practice-by-helping-those-with-mental-health-concerns-in-sri-lanka
A student from our University has been heavily involved with mental-health focused initiatives in Sri Lanka as part of her placement year. Psychology student Chandini Subramanyam travelled to Sri Lanka to gain hands-on psychology work experience with SLV.Global. SLV.
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Big Band raise the bar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/big-band-raise-the-bar
Talented students making up the University’s Big Band have wowed crowds and judges alike with their performances at the National Festival of Music for Youth.