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Significant weight loss and blood sugar control seen in patients with type 2 diabetes following new medication combination
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/diabetes
An international team, including the Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), that studied the combined effects of semaglutide with cagrilintide (CagriSema) in people with type 2 diabetes, has revealed...
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Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns
Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur
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Ground-breaking lawyer joins University Law Society as president
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/luls-president
Leicester University Law Society has announced that I. Stephanie Boyce will act as its president for the next academic year, starting in October 2022.
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Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant
Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.
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How science got women wrong explored by award-winning science journalist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/how-science-got-women-wrong-explored-by-award-winning-science-journalist
The long history of gender bias in science research and the work being done to correct it will be explored in a talk by award-winning science journalist Angela Saini (pictured).
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Pioneering African mental health study receives millions in funding from Wellcome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/neet
A Wellcome-funded study led by the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and others, aims to identify predictors of depression among NEET youth in Africa.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/biostatistics/publications
Explore the publications related to Biostatistics research at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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Arrhythmias
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/intervention/arrhythmias
We are one of the most active centres in the country in interventional arrhythmia research.
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Autumn 2024 newsletter
https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/patient-carer-group/newsletters/autumn-2024
Dear Members of the Patient and Carer Group (P&CG) Welcome to the Christmas edition of the newsletter. At the end of 2024 the Patient and Carer Group can be proud of the extensive teaching offered throughout our healthcare programmes.