Leeds International Summer School News

Tracey Brabin, West Yorkshire Mayor and Jeanne Rivera, Cell Metrology Team Leader at the launch of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub.

Nexus home to Northern Cell Metrology Hub

Published
Wednesday 5th April, 2023
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business

Nexus has been unveiled as the home of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub, a new centre of innovation for clinical diagnostics and new medical technology.

Professor Helen Gleeson and Devesh Mistry working together in a laboratory

£2m investment boost for professor's 'wonder material'

Published
Wednesday 5th April, 2023
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business
Science

A cutting edge “deeptech” company born when a Leeds academic discovered a revolutionary new material that gets thicker as it is stretched has attracted £2 million in investment.

A student wearing a virtual reality headset, interacting with Stacey the virtual patient, who is sitting on a chair with her baby next to her in a baby carrier

Virtual patient teaches real-life mental health skills

Published
Monday 3rd April, 2023
Categories
Technology
Health

Extended-reality assisted clinical training in perinatal mental health has been launched by Health Education England in collaboration with the University of Leeds.

Illustration of a deepfake being made - a woman's face is shown being swapped with another face.

Deepfakes: has the camera always lied?

Published
Friday 31st March, 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture
Technology
Society & Politics
Research

Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic.

Kimberly Campanello performs poetry to an audience with a red backdrop (left) and looks at the camera for a portrait shot (right).

Poet speaks out about young onset Parkinson’s

Published
Friday 31st March, 2023
Categories
Health
Arts & Culture

A moving poem about living with young onset Parkinson's has been penned by an academic at the University of Leeds to mark World Parkinson’s Day.

A machine with eight syringes containing coloured fluid which is being piped into testing trays

Preventing cancer relapse with a genetic test

Published
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Categories
Science
Health

Scientists have found a new way to predict which myeloma patients will benefit the most from a treatment often used to help keep the blood cancer from coming back after a stem cell transplant.

Forecasters looking at weather maps on a computer screen.

Alerting vulnerable communities to extreme weather

Published
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Categories
Technology
Environment
Science

Scientists have been awarded £2 million to develop ways of alerting communities in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique to extreme weather.