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Wes Streeting, Secretary of State with a virtual reality headset on talking to Peter Woodthorpe and Dr Yee Mun Lee.

Hi-tech healthcare in Leeds

Published
5 June 2025
Categories
Working with our region
Health

Leeds plays a crucial role in driving improved patient care through hi-tech advancements, according to Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

An old photograph of Ivy Angerer, standing in front of fence railings.

Finding Ivy: A life worthy of life

Published
2 June 2025
Categories
Research

Victims of a Nazi-led killing programme that targeted people with disabilities will be recognised in a new exhibition.

Shaunna Burke holds a Macmillan Cancer Support shirt at the summit of Lobuche East

Leeds researcher completes Everest Marathon

Published
2 June 2025
Categories
Health
Global
Research

A cancer and exercise researcher at the University of Leeds has completed the world’s highest marathon and a 6000m mountain climb, just over a year on from her incurable breast cancer diagnosis.

Members of the World Universities Network are gathered in a line in front of a concrete building and a sculpture.

World universities come together

Published
22 May 2025
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Global

Global universities have re-affirmed their commitment to international partnership and development.

A patient undergoing radiotherapy. In the foreground, a radiologist holds a remote control for the linear accelerator machine.

Breakthrough in anal cancer treatment

Published
15 May 2025
Categories
Research

A kinder treatment for anal cancer involving a lower dose and shorter course of radiotherapy is more effective than traditional treatment, a clinical trial led by Leeds researchers has found.

Two researchers stand behind concrete-mixing equipment in large engineering lab.

Rubble recycling could be key to rebuilding Ukraine

Published
15 May 2025
Categories
Research

An engineer from Ukraine will travel to the University of Leeds for expert training on how to use pioneering rubble recycling technology to help rebuild his war-torn country.

A person in a lab coat and blue gloves analyses a blood sample in a lab.

Extending blood cancer remission

Published
14 May 2025
Categories
Research

An innovative blood cancer treatment regime could extend remission by seven months on average, according to a clinical trial led by the University of Leeds.

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How influencers can tip the markets

Published
12 May 2025
Categories
Business & Economy
Research

Social media influencers, especially those with massive followings, can move a company’s stock price even though they have no expertise in the financial markets, researchers have warned.

Snowy Antarctic landscape featuring a glacier, plus ice floating on the ocean, with a backdrop of blue sky.

Satellites observe glacier committing “ice piracy”

Published
8 May 2025
Categories
Research

A glacier in Antarctica is committing “ice piracy” – stealing ice from a neighbour – in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say scientists.