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A heart monitoring device at the end of a hospital bed

COVID-19's toll on global cardiac services

Published
31 May 2022
Categories
Research
Global
Coronavirus
Health

A major study has revealed the global collateral damage caused by the disruption to cardiac services from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biological Sciences building at the University of Leeds

Rogue proteins targeted by new technology

Published
30 May 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Science
Health

Scientists plan to develop technology to isolate and extract fragments of a "rogue" protein linked to diabetes.

Edward Roberts holding a bar of Dairy Milk chocolate with his Platinum Jubilee design on the wrapper

Leeds student’s Jubilee emblem goes global

Published
30 May 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Working with business
Arts & Culture

It's emblazoned across London Buses and embellished on Krispy Kreme donuts; etched onto the Wimbledon Singles Final coin and stitched into socks.

Professor Nick Plant, Science Minister George Freeman and Dr Martin Stow standing in front of the Nexus logo in the building foyer

Science Minister George Freeman visits Nexus

Published
19 May 2022
Categories
Working with business
Working with our region
Science

The UK Science Minister visited the University to learn how its state-of-the-art innovation hub is helping the city region become a global force in health technology. 

computerised human body with the heart highlighted

Investigating how scarred hearts affect athletes

Published
16 May 2022
Categories
Science
Health
Research

New research will monitor the heartbeats of more than 100 athletes over two years to measure how endurance exercise impacts their heart.

A teenager smoking a cigarette

Building teenagers’ resilience to say 'No' to smoking

Published
16 May 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Science
Health

A training programme to help teenagers say “No” if they are offered a cigarette or asked to vape is being offered to schools under a licensing deal signed by the University.

Hondartza Fraga photographed in front of Saturn and Melancholy

Seeing Stars: New exhibition takes art into outer space

Published
11 May 2022
Categories
Arts & Culture
Research

A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is shining a light on contemporary artists who use the newest technologies for space imaging in their art practice.

A human brain scan showing repeated images of a brain tumour

Novel approach to brain tumour treatment

Published
9 May 2022
Categories
Science
Health

A potential new approach to treating one of the most common and devastating forms of brain cancer in adults has been developed in a seven-year research project.