New COVID-19 testing lab in Nigeria

GCRF funds a new Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory for COVID-19 testing in Nigeria.

Leeds academic awarded Senior Fellowship by Wellcome Trust

Dr Elton Zeqiraj from Leeds’ Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology has been awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust, the UK’s leading medical research charity.

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A new way to target a mutant protein which can cause the deadliest of cancers in humans has been uncovered by scientists at Leeds.

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