News | University of Leeds

Partners put health and care at the top of their agenda

Published: 5 May 2016
Categories: Health

A new partnership involving some of Leeds’ biggest organisations has come together to improve people’s health and wellbeing both in the city and beyond.

Cutting fuel costs and CO2 emissions

Published: 24 March 2016
Categories: Environment

Cars of the future which advise how to drive more safely and economically could bring significant cuts in fuel consumption and emissions.

Unravelling the secret of antibiotic resistance

Published: 22 March 2016
Categories: Health | Science

Scientists from the University of Leeds have solved a 25-year-old question about how a family of proteins allow bacteria to resist the effects of certain antibiotics.

A research team led by the University of Leeds has observed for the first time how HIV and Ebola viruses attach to cells to spread infection.

'Quantum dots’ light the way for new HIV and Ebola treatment

Published: 15 March 2016
Categories: Health | Science

A research team led by the University of Leeds has observed for the first time how HIV and Ebola viruses attach to cells to spread infection.

Dr Darren Treanor shows a LVM slide on a Powerwall

Sale of virtual microscope technology

Published: 23 February 2016
Categories: Working with business | Technology | Health

The healthcare company Roche has acquired the intellectual property and technology of the Leeds Virtual Microscope (LVM), an innovative system designed to help pathologists making cancer diagnoses.

Digital design to boost pharmaceutical industry

Published: 28 January 2016
Categories: Working with business | Business & Economy | Technology | Health

University of Leeds researchers are part of a project to transform the UK’s pharmaceutical industry by introducing new digital design processes.

An international team of scientists has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015.

A kink in the fault line explains why the Himalayas keep growing

Published: 11 January 2016
Categories: Environment | Science

An international team of scientists has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, killing more than 8,000 people.

Investing in Knowledge, Creating Opportunity

Published: 18 November 2015
Categories: Research and innovation | News | Research

A specially commissioned report captures the scale of the University’s economic, social and cultural impact.

Unlocking the secrets of consumer behaviour

Published: 5 October 2015
Categories: Technology | Working with business

The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) launches its data services today, offering new data for researchers to garner unprecedented insights into consumer behaviour.

First glimpses of motor proteins in action

Published: 14 September 2015
Categories: Technology | Science

The first images of motor proteins in action are published in the journal Nature Communications today.

New support for medical innovation in Yorkshire’s universities

Published: 3 September 2015
Categories: Health | Technology

The University of Leeds has secured a £2.25 million investment to support the commercialisation of medical technologies developed by five universities in the Leeds City Region.

Boost for UK medical technology innovation

Published: 30 July 2015
Categories: Health

The University of Leeds Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) has won £3 million to continue bringing the best of the UK’s medical technology research to patients.

University of Leeds showcases pioneering research for Minister

Published: 15 June 2015
Categories: Technology | Science | University

The new Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson MP, visited world-leading research facilities at the University of Leeds.

University funds £17m structural biology lab

Published: 3 June 2015
Categories: Technology | Science

The University of Leeds is investing £17 million in a state-of-the-art laboratory for structural biology research.

Hi-tech nanoknife treatment to kill kidney tumour

Published: 14 May 2015
Categories: Technology | Health

A pioneering procedure has been carried out by a University of Leeds specialist using a hi-tech 'nanoknife' technology to destroy cancer cells using pulses of high voltage electrical current.

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