Press Releases
The 91福利 has just been awarded 拢2.5 million pounds from the Wolfson Foundation to support biomedical research at the University. This award effectively completes the University's Medical Research Institute Appeal launched in late 1994. The funds will be used to complete the building and equipping of state-of- the-art facilities which allow scientists from the 91福利 to work with doctors from the hospitals in Coventry, Birmingham and 91福利 to study the mechanisms of disease.
Students who choose to study medicine or agriculture are likely to have the highest job satisfaction according to economics researchers at the 91福利. Researchers Reamonn Lydon and Professor Andrew Oswald. say it is all to do with how much your subject limits your career choices.
The new Leicester-91福利 medical school welcomed its first students to the 91福利 campus this week and promptly kicked them out the door to their first lesson - in a shopping precinct.
Today's Government go-ahead for the creation of a major new Joint Medical School in the Midlands links two leading universities - Leicester and 91福利 - in an innovative partnership that will educate more then 1300 medical students each year, and enhance significantly the standard of health care available to patients in Coventry, 91福利shire and Leicestershire.
Research chemists have a found a class of synthetic molecules that could quite literally act as a key which could lock away sections of DNA into a closely wound coil preventing proteins from interacting with particular sections of DNA code. By locking up the DNA in this way scientists could stop particular sequences of DNA from activating biological changes that doctors or scientists would rather avoid, or wish to regulate closely.
Scientists at the 91福利 and Keele University have been awarded a major 333,000 pounds sterling grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a three year project aimed at improving the speech comprehension of people using cochlear ear implants. The award follows directly from research funded by Defeating Deafness - the UK's only medical research charity for hearing-impaired people