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Lines of descent
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/lines-of-descent
DNA analysis of the Greyfriars bones was crucial to confirming their identity as those of Richard III. But that analysis would be meaningless without something for comparison.
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Professional cyclist to join Ride Leicester Festival biking event to raise diabetes awareness
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/professional-cyclist-to-join-ride-leicester-festival-biking-event-to-raise-diabetes-awareness
A professional cyclist from an all-diabetes riding team is set to join Ride Leicester’s Castle Classic & Let’s Ride Leicester event.
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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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David Watkin
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/david-watkin
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Watkin, who was instrumental in the founding of Leicester Medical School. The following obituary, by David's daughter Sally Watkin, originally appeared in the BMJ.
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Neisseria meningitidis
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis/neisseria-meningitidis
Neisseria meningitidis, meningitis, meningitis awareness, meningococcus, gram-negative, pathogen, microbiology, nasopharynx, septicaemia, vaccine, vaccination, ACWY, phase variation, genetics, genome, N. lactamica
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Our speakers
https://le.ac.uk/health-sciences/news/wpd2023/speakers
Elaine Boyle Elaine is the LCFC Professor in Child Health and an Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She leads the LCFC Programme of Research.
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Leicester experts contribute to international consortium helping patients with rare disease diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/rare-diseases
Experts from the University of Leicester have co-coordinated a European consortium of 300 researchers to help patients with unsolved rare diseases receive a diagnosis through new genetic reanalysis
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New board appointed to advise on future space innovation in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/space-advisory-board-innovation
A new board has been created which will further strengthen Leicester’s pivotal role at the heart of UK space innovation. Leicester is one of the world’s most active cities for space research and has contributed to space exploration for more than six decades.
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First-ever University Challenge champs aim to bring trophy back to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/university-challenge
A team of University of Leicester students will be bidding to bring the BBC University Challenge trophy back to the East Midlands for the first time since 1963.
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Professor George Fraser
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/meet-the-team/professor-george-fraser
George Fraser was born 22 July 1955 near Inverness and was a proud Highlander.