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Breast cancer treatment could benefit from Artificial Intelligence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/talbot
Artificial Intelligence could identify patients at increased risk of side effects from radiation treatment for breast cancer
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock
Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).
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Opening up the University archives for Heritage Open Days on 19/20 September
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/18-heritage-open-days
As part of Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, the University of Leicester is opening its archives up to the public with a series of free events on Thursday 19 September and Friday 20 September.
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New BHF investment to bolster world-class research at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/03-bhf-accelerator-award-heart-circulatory-diseases
The University of Leicester has received £1 million in funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to strengthen its world-class research into heart and circulatory diseases.
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The ‘Forbidden Planet’ has been found in the Neptunian Desert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/30-new-exoplanet-neptune-forbidden-planet
New research by an international group of researchers, including Dr Matt Burleigh and Dr Emma Longstaff of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, has identified a rogue planet.
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Switching to renewable energy could save thousands of lives in Africa
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/21-africa-solar
With renewable energy cheaper and more efficient than ever, countries in Africa have the unique opportunity to harness abundant renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal.
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Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles
Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.
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Lecturer clinches early career award for outstanding work in pharmacy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/scott
Sion Scott, a lecturer in behavioural medicine and lead postgraduate tutor at the University of Leicester is the winner of the Outstanding Pharmacy Early-Career Researcher Award’ (OPERA) 2024
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Funding spotlight MRC DPFS
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/opportunities/funding-spotlight-mrc-dpfs
Dr Tim Hammonds: Applying to the MRC Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS) Having recently joined the MRC DPFS panel I can share with you some of the things I have learned about applying for and successfully achieving funding for translational programs in this health...
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Tony Gershlick
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/tony-gershlick
It is with deep sadness we announce that the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) have lost a talented, dedicated and much loved colleague to COVID-19.