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Major funding boost for radiotherapy research

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Scientists and clinicians at the University of Leeds exploring new radiotherapy treatments and technologies have been given a major cash boost from Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Over the next five years the CRUK Leeds Radiation Research Centre of Excellence (RadNet Leeds) will receive £2.94 million from the charity. Combined with a further £5.6 million leveraged funding from...

Pioneering disease research gets major investment boost

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University of Leeds has received a grant of £1.1million to enable world leading research into disease. The grant, which has been awarded by the Wolfson Foundation, will be used to fund high-resolution microscopes which use fluorescent dyes to see into cells in exquisite detail. This new equipment will enable scientists to understand the structure of...

Professor Bruce Turnbull wins prestigious Bader Prize from Royal Society of Chemistry

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Professor Bruce Turnbull, of the School of Chemistry, won the prize for the development and application of bioorthogonal approaches in engineering functional protein and carbohydrate-based systems. The surface of every living cell is covered in a layer of complex carbohydrate structures known as the glycocalyx, and the types of carbohydrates present differ from one cell...

Professor Sheena Radford elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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A huge congratulations to Professor Sheena Radford who has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Membership of the Academy is among the highest honours in science. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars based in the United States of America. Established by an...

Congratulations to Professor Sheena Radford on receiving the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for 2025.

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Professor Sheena Radford has been awarded the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for 2025. The Centenary Award is awarded annually to a molecular bioscientist based on the impact of their research and a demonstrable commitment to build, support, and nurture talent within the scientific community. Sheena said: "I am delighted and humbled to receive this award. I...

Congratulations to Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso on being promoted to Professor

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  Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, from the School of Biology, is celebrating becoming the second person from Leeds to earn a senior promotion after joining the ground-breaking 100 Black Women Professors NOW! programme. The pioneering systemic change programme aims to break down barriers by increasing the number of Black women in the academic pipeline. When it was launched in...

BK virus: a potential complication after a kidney transplant

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Professor Andrew Macdonald, Pro Dean for Research and Innovation, talks to Kidney Matters about how research at University of Leeds is supporting the development of new treatments for BK virus. BK virus is a common virus that infects most people by the age of about 10 years. A healthy immune system keeps the virus in...

Scientists secure funding to push the boundaries of bioscience research

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Two researchers in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Dr Juan Fontana and Professor Frank Sobott, are to receive a share of £12 million to pursue visionary bioscience research. The projects, which have been funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will explore early-stage ideas at the frontiers of bioscience and will use state...