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  • Graduate doctor rushes to aid of stab victim in London tube station

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/graduate-doctor-rushes-to-aid-of-stab-victim-in-london-tube-station

    A heroic doctor rushed to the rescue after a man was stabbed in a terrorist attack in a London tube station.

  • 38m super lightweight mirror chosen for ChineseFrench space mission

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/ps3-8m-super-lightweight-mirror-chosen-for-chinese-french-space-mission

    The University has announced the signature of a contract to develop an innovative new type of X-ray mirror for a telescope to be flown on an orbiting observatory to be launched in 2021.

  • Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

    A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

  • Leicester student in world Wheelchair Rugby Challenge

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-student-in-world-wheelchair-rugby-challenge

    A Leicester doctoral student has described the ‘great experience’ of taking part in the inaugural BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

  • Prison rehabilitation researcher wins presenting challenge

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/short-sentence-prison-rehabilitation-researcher-wins-presenting-challenge

    The Graduate School is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, held on 20 May 2015. The competition featured eleven excellent presentations from both full time and part time postgraduate researchers.

  • New report published to give practical steps for using surgical checklists safely

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/new-report-published-to-give-practical-steps-for-using-surgical-checklists-safely

    A new, freely accessible report led by Dr Emmilie Aveling from the Department of Health Sciences offers practical guidance to those seeking to optimise implementation of the surgical checklist.

  • New heart attack genes discovered

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

    Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

  • University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview

    A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries available online.

  • Leicester academics message to returning British astronaut Tim Peake

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-academics2019-message-to-returning-british-astronaut-tim-peake

    Space scientists from our University have praised the successful completion of British astronaut Tim Peake’s six month mission aboard the International Space Station.

  • Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings

    The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.

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