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The University of Leeds is immensely proud to have acted as host to the NIHR Clinical Research Network Co-ordinating Centre since 2005.

The University of Leeds is immensely proud to have acted as host to the NIHR Clinical Research Network Co-ordinating Centre since 2005.

In 2010, graffiti is widely seen as an eyesore and an act of vandalism, holding for many distinctly negative connotations.

Sinochem, China’s largest trading company and first multinational conglomerate, has signed a formal agreement to collaborate in research and innovation with the University of Leeds.

Failure to diagnose a rheumatic condition that can cause life-long back pain and give patients appropriate care is costing society dear, the Government will be told today.

Virtual reality software that plans the safe decommissioning of nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities could save industry millions of pounds, according to its inventors.

The project will enable highly toxic drugs to be delivered in small doses directly to tumours, where their toxicity can safely be put to good use.

Post-war buildings at the University of Leeds which created world-wide interest when they were built have been listed on the recommendation of English Heritage.

Scientists at the University of Leeds have been awarded nearly £1.5m to explore the causes and consequences of threats to bees and other pollinating insects in the UK.

A series of sculptures relating to rites and rituals, by School of Design lecturer Deborah Gardner, are now installed in St. Augustine's Church, Forest Hill, London.

Interdisciplinary research being undertaken by the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge has received a major boost through a £5.9m, five- year EPSRC Programme Grant award to address this issue of enabling growth of ICT networks while at the same time reducing energy consumption.

Research led by the University of Leeds has found drugs such as anti-diabetic drug Metformin and AICAR, used to combat obesity, can prevent the hepatitis C virus from replicating in the body.

A leading investigative journalist, the former head of the 10 Downing Street Policy Unit and a leading public philosopher and crossbench peer will discuss these issues at a major public event at the University of Leeds this month.

An international, multicentre trial has found that a new chemotherapy agent, based on a natural extract from a sea sponge, can extend the lives of women with breast cancer. The results are being presented tomorrow (Tuesday 8 June) by the trial's lead investigator, Professor Christopher Twelves of the University of Leeds and St. James's Institute of Oncology, U.K. , at the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the world's leading professional organization of cancer specialists.