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• Research project will help those affected by Huntington’s disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/leicester-huntingtons-disease-award

  Clinical psychologist Dr Sarah Gunn, from the University of Leicester, has been awarded nearly £2 million to advance her work in the field of Huntington’s disease

• Nuclear Graphite

  https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/facilities/hercules/case-studies/nuclear-graphite

  Preparation of free-standing pillar  Nuclear Graphite Graphite is hugely important for the construction of both historical and modern nuclear reactors [1], acting as a neutron moderator.

• University of Leicester’s new support for parents of babies born premature or requiring neonatal care awarded charter mark

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/employer-with-heart-neonatal-leave

  The University of Leicester has been recognised for its support of parents of premature babies and those who required neonatal care with the Employer with Heart charter mark from the charity The Smallest Things.

• Leicester scholar’s Bible ushers in new royal chapter (and verse)

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-bible-king-james

  The Quatercentenary Edition of the King James Bible, prepared by University of Leicester academic Professor Gordon Campbell in 2011, will be used for the King's Coronation Oath.

• CassiniHuygens will truly be the benchmark against which all future space missions are compared

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/201ccassini-huygens-will-truly-be-the-benchmark-against-which-all-future-space-missions-are-compared201d

  After almost twenty years in space, the Cassini spacecraft will tomorrow (15 September) make its final encounter with Saturn, ending humankind’s first detailed exploration of the ringed planet.

• Pioneering Leicester researcher ready for ‘mind-blowing’ space images

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/naomi-rowe-gurney

  A five-year break in China, a worldwide pandemic, and delays to the most complex space telescope ever built: none of these were enough to stop Naomi Rowe-Gurney breaking new ground to complete her PhD at Leicester and land a dream job with NASA.

• 2014 and 2013 statistics

  https://le.ac.uk/dbs/legislative-responsibilities/species-statistics/2014

  See the statistics relating to the animals used and bred in our research facility in 2014 and 2013.

• New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins

  A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.

• University of Leicester celebrates School of Education’s 75th anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/education

  University of Leicester’s School of Education has hit a landmark anniversary, celebrating its 75th year.  The School was founded in 1946, welcoming its first group of 19 students, most of whom were ex-military personnel.

• New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

  X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.