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                    Study reveals underlying genetic risks for a type of heart attack largely affecting younger womenhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/heart Study reveals underlying genetic risks for a type of heart attack largely affecting younger women 
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                    Distant supermassive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eatinghttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/distant-supermassive-black-hole-high-velocity-over-eating-770 University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind. 
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                    Radio Leicester and the University of Leicester 50 Years of Collaborationhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/radio-leicester-and-the-university-of-leicester-2013-50-years-of-collaboration2019 The recent 50th anniversary of the start of the country’s first BBC local radio station, BBC Radio Leicester, which launched on 8 November 1967, also marks the 50th anniversary of the University of Leicester’s ongoing collaboration with Radio Leicester. 
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                    Leicester research making a big noise wins national awardhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/john-connell-award Scientists at the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at University of Leicester receive a ‘Noise Oscar’ 
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                    Breakthrough in lung cancer treatment is based on University of Leicester specialist’s 20 year old discoveryhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dean-fennell A breakthrough in treatment for an aggressive fatal lung disease has been made thanks to a two decades’ old discovery by a University of Leicester cancer specialist. 
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                    Trailblazing woman of leadership is honoured by the University of Leicesterhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/grads-towle A University of Leicester stalwart who led the charge for more women in leadership roles has been honoured by the institution. 
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                    Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart conditionhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/tavi-results Leicester researchers have shown, in a ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), how a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery. 
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                    Leicester launches renovated home for School of Businesshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/brookfield-launch The £15.8 million restoration of the University of Leicester Business School (ULSB)’s home was formally opened with a special ceremony on Thursday. 
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                    More than 50 years of Leicester in spacehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/05-more-than-50-years-of-leicester-in-space In World Space Week we reflect on the University of Leicester’s long history of making out of this world discoveries. 
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                    Links between historic places, colonialism and slavery revealedhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/links-between-historic-places-colonialism-and-slavery-revealed Connections between 93 historic places and colonialism and historic slavery have been revealed by the National Trust today, for the first time.