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FIT-HF community showcase celebrates success and explores the future of integrated heart failure care

More than 140 patients, carers, healthcare professionals and community organisations came together in Leicester to celebrate the impact of the FIT-HF programme.

Limited tickets left for immersive respiratory virus event at King Power Stadium this summer

An interactive science event turning the home of Leicester City Football Club into a respiratory virus museum has sold out in just five days.

Public involvement event explores phage therapy for recurrent UTIs

The Becky Meyer Centre for Phage Research recently hosted a public involvement event, supported by the Institute of Precision Health (IPH) and NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), to explore …

City centre International Women’s Day event focused on the future of women’s health

It was wonderful to see so many people enjoying dance and crafts, and chatting with Leicester’s leading health professionals at our vibrant International Women’s Day celebration on 6 March 2025.

Free International Women’s Day event will focus on the future of women’s health

It’s not every day that you get to dance, craft, and chat with Leicester’s leading health professionals, but that’s exactly what you can do on Thursday 6 March 2025 at …

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International Women’s Day celebration

Come along to our FREE International Women’s Day celebration and be part ofour efforts to accelerate improvements to women’s health! Thursday 6 March 2025, First Floor, Haymarket Shopping Centre drop …

You’re invited to our Public Involvement in Health Research Event

Come and hear about health improvement research taking place here in Leicester at our Public Involvement in Health Research Event Saturday 23 March 2024 10am – 1pm George Davies Centre …

You’re invited to the PPIE for statistical methodology research workshop

Would you like to discover new ways to engage and involve the public in your work, and your findings? Then our workshop on 26 February 2024 at College Court, the …

A group photo of delegates at the recent Respiratory Genomics conference

International scientific event aims to improve treatment for lung diseases

More than 100 people were the first to hear the very latest developments into the genetic basis of respiratory health conditions at a recent scientific event in Leicester.

You’re invited to the 2023 Cancer Conference

Would you like to learn more about developments in cancer care helping patients at University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust? Then please join us at the UHL Cancer Conference …

Professor Jacqui Shaw, Cancer Theme lead at the BRC

Cancer patients shape future of research at public meeting

Cancer patients have joined NIHR Leicester BRC researchers to share their experiences, and talk about shaping the future of cancer research in Leicester.

Ideas shared and successes celebrated at our 2023 Symposium

“Today we really got to feel the scale and breadth of the life-changing research being undertaken right here in Leicester and it made me feel incredibly proud to be part …

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The NIHR Leicester BRC is part of the NIHR and hosted by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in partnership with the University of Leicester,  Loughborough University and the University Hospitals of the Northamptonshire NHS Group.

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