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• Funding boost for sports at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/25-funding-boost-for-sports-at-leicester

  Sports funding womens lacrosse|Funding boost for sports at Leicester The University of Leicester has been granted around £17,000 to support new sporting initiatives.

• Students present youth violence solutions to the Home Office

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/07-students-home-office-youth-violence-challenge

  On Wednesday 29 May, four of our students visited the Home Office to present their proposed solution to the problem of youth violence following their success at our ‘Transform Challenge Day’.

• 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.

• Conference on stalking aims for closer integration of services

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/09-stalking-conference

  Representatives from the police, CPS, health and probation services together with academics from criminology, forensic psychology and other disciplines engaged in research related to stalking are gathering at the University of Leicester on Thursday 10 October 2019.

• A multidisciplinary team of scientists aim to solve the mystery of magnetoreception

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/magnetoreception

  A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic forces affect animals, including humans

• Donation will advance ground-breaking work taking place to help those at risk of sudden cardiac death

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/lifemap

  Heart experts at the University of Leicester have been awarded £400,000 to advance their work on a technique to assess a patient’s risk of sudden cardiac death

• University astronomer discovers Saturn’s famous hexagon may tower above the clouds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/university-astronomer-discovers-saturn2019s-famous-hexagon-may-tower-above-the-clouds

  University astronomer discovers Saturn’s famous hexagon may tower above the clouds University astronomer discovers Saturn’s famous hexagon may tower above the clouds| Stunning atmospheric vortex revealed at planet’s north pole in new study.

• Shaping the Future: Space Park Leicester presentation to Parliament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/19-shaping-the-future

  Members of the Parliamentary Scientific Committee hear from a University of Leicester delegation on the space economy and low cost access to space.

• Leicester researchers provide expertise to world-leading Alzheimer’s prevention study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-world-leading-alzheimers-study

  Study aims to improve the understanding of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease

• MRI research that gets to the heart of the matter

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-mri-research-that-gets-to-the-heart-of-the-matter

  Insight into heart disease to be presented at University of Leicester’s Frank May Prize Lecture 2018 on 29 October