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• Five shortlisted from Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the UK’s only awards for technicians in academia

  Date: 6 June 2023

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  Five individuals and teams from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ are in the running for Papin Prizes, dedicated to celebrating technical excellence and...

• Leicester’s showstopping chemist on his Bake-Off experiment

  Date: 11 December 2023

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  Dr Joshua Smalley speaks to the Press Office about rising to the occasion in the famous white tent

• £8.2M award from ESPRC to transform how technology critical materials are recycled and reused

  Date: 25 July 2024

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  Professor Andy Abbott of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is part of the team for RECREATE, which aims to develop a circular economy for...

• Secrets of our ancient animal ancestors may be revealed through oldest DNA sequences

  Date: 28 October 2015

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  700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding...

• Pterosaurs needed feet on the ground to become giants

  Date: 4 October 2024

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans

• Geneticist in major project to breed new varieties of wheat

  Date: 14 December 2015

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  Our University has been included in one of three high-value, long-term research projects totalling £13.

• Nobel Prize winner on campus

  Date: 4 October 2017

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  One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was visiting the Â鶹ÊÓƵ campus - on the day of the announcement of the...

• Lecture series launched in memory of eminent microbiologist

  Date: 14 March 2017

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  A pioneering cellular microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s...

• Event explores developing partnerships for innovation in health

  Date: 28 June 2024

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  Scientists and healthcare experts from across the Midlands have come together to explore the transformative impact of partnerships for innovation...

• Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents

  Date: 17 January 2017

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  The mechanisms that cause cancers to respond poorly to therapy are to be investigated in a project that commemorates and honours the work of an...