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• Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin

  A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage that can ultimately lead to cancer.

• COVID-19 treatment trialed at Leicester’s Hospitals shown to reduce deaths in sickest patients by one-fifth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/covid-recovery

  John, a self-employed roofer, was approached by a research nurse to take part in the RECOVERY trial, where he was assigned the Regeneron monoclonal antibody combination. The treatment was delivered through an intravenous drip, which took about an hour to enter his body.

• Markets over Morals: Neoliberal Thought Has Always Struggled to Condemn Authoritarianism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/11/20/markets-over-morals-neoliberal-thought-has-always-struggled-to-condemn-authoritarianism/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on November 20, 2018   In this blog post Dr Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History in ULSB, discusses his research analysing the relationship between neoliberal economic thought and morality.

• Videos highlighting women's compelling stories shortlisted for AHRC film awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-videos-highlighting-womens-compelling-stories-shortlisted-for-ahrc-film-awards

  ‘The Saving Tree’ and ‘Our Home’ created by Dr Brett Matulis from our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment have been shortlisted for 2018 Research in Film Awards

• Grants and awards

  https://le.ac.uk/genetic-epidemiology/grants-and-awards

  Explore the grants and awards for Genetic Epidemiology research at the University of Leicester.

• Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.

• New drugs to prevent tuberculosis could be developed thanks to this novel cell wall breakthrough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-cell-wall-breakthrough

  Hero tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosisis|Research has identified a novel regulatory mechanism, which when deactivated, results in the death of the life-threatening pathogen.

• Turkey

  https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/europe/turkey

  We welcome students from Turkey. Find out about entry requirements, the Turkish student community and other country-specific information.

• Expert view: Legal aid for asylum seekers is hard to come by – it’s no wonder criminal advisers are taking advantage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/legal-aid-asylum-seekers

  Dr Diego Garcia Rodriguez from the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, and colleagues at the universities of Exeter and Birmingham respond to a BBC investigation into asylum advice this week, in this article published by The Conversation:

• Physics at Leicester: light years from its humble beginnings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/physics-centenary-100-years-history

  As the School of Physics and Astronomy celebrates 100 years of Physics at Leicester, find out more about its history and achievements