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Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-technology-ultra-clean-mini-lab-extra-terrestrial-samples
University of Leicester’s science and innovation park to lead on a European Space Agency project to build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI) to support analysis of extra-terrestrial samples, to reduce the risk of cross contamination on Earth
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Funding opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/funding-opportunities
The British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award will fund several new posts for high calibre researchers early in their careers and provide them with the training, mentoring and support to enable them to become the research leaders of the future.
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The science behind genetic fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/science
We are all genetically unique - here's a brief overview of what is involved from a scientific perspective.
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University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to host new NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/nihr-research-delivery-network
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that a new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Delivery Network (RDN) will commence in 2024 to support the successful delivery of health and social care research in England.
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Space Park Leicester partnership signals formal start of operations at East Midlands Freeport
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/freeport-space-park
Space Park Leicester has been given the green light by the Government to become a customs site operator for East Midlands Freeport.
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Lord Willetts former Universities and Science Minister announced as Universitys new Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/lord-willetts-former-universities-and-science-minister-announced-as-universitys-new-chancellor
The University has announced that former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, who is an honorary graduate of the University and delivered the inaugural Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, is to be installed as the new Chancellor of the University. The Rt Hon.
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Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, c. 1940s to 2001
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/disputed-bodies
WT096580MA, Large Programme Grant, Joint PI, Wellcome Trust funded from 2 March 2012 to 1st April 2018), a major new book and associated articles.
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Life on the home front
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front
Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Leicester ramps up its wellbeing support for Gen Z students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-wellbeing-support-gen-z-students
With almost a quarter of those in the Generation Z age group affected by mental health issues, The University of Leicester has ramped up the wellbeing support it offers its students.