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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...
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...
Congratulations to Mike who has been promoted to Professor of Biological Chemistry.
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...
Congratulations to Megan who has recently been promoted to Associate Professor following the completion of her University Academic Fellowship.
A spin out company called CalTIC has been launched by the University of Leeds and its research partners in Germany - the Lead Discovery Centre, a specialist drug discovery laboratory in Dortmund; the Max Planck Society; and Heidelberg University - to commercially exploit the research. Research over the past two decades has culminated in a...
Fran Chandler (Zeqiraj lab) was invited to give a talk at the first mass photometry users meeting at the Kavli Institute in Oxford where she won a prize for best talk. Congratulations Fran!
Richard Henderson – a molecular biologist and biophysicist - was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017 for developing cryo-electron microscopy techniques to determine in high resolution the structure of important biomolecules. He delivered the keynote speech at the Astbury Conversation 2022. Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, said: “It is a...
The Astbury Centre joins scientists across the world in watching events in Ukraine with horror. We’ve joined the EMBO #SolidarityList, and stand in solidarity with Ukraine and life scientists working there. We would be happy to support displaced Ukrainian scientists at any level, including hosting, in any way we can. If you think we can...
Congratulations to Dr. Qian Wu who has been announced as a L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland for Women in Science 2021 Rising Talent Fellow. The programme, a partnership between L'Oréal UK & Ireland, the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, with the support of the Royal Society, offers grants to...