Faculty of Medicine and Health

Postgraduate Virtual Open Days

12 – 17 April

Tissue Bank boost for brain cancer researchers

New Leeds-based brain tumour Tissue Bank is set to open following donations from two Yorkshire charities.

Image of brain tumour cells under a microscope

Group of undergraduate University of Leeds Medicine and Health students on campus

Postgraduate Virtual Open Days
New brain cancer tissue bank
FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH

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Coronavirus (covid-19)

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If you’re an existing student or member of staff, please visit our coronavirus website for the latest updates and information.

Mark kearney, dean of medicine, in sustainability garden.

Welcome from the Executive Dean

Here at Leeds we pride ourselves on our dynamic and innovative clinical and academic educational portfolio. We offer a range of education, research and training opportunities in world-class facilities. Leeds is a great place to study and we welcome students from across the globe to study with us.

PROFESSOR MARK KEARNEY, INTERIM EXECUTIVE DEAN

Our schools are consistently highly ranked, nationally and internationally, and have maintained a global reputation for academic excellence, world-class research and technology-enhanced learning. Our acclaimed strength in both teaching and research attracts the best clinicians and academics to work with us.

Equality and Inclusion

The Faculty is committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all our staff and students.

The Faculty Equality and Inclusion committee meets termly and is chaired by the Executive Dean of the Faculty, Professor Paul Stewart. The faculty committee works closely with the University Equality Policy Unit to promote the University Equality Objectives.

Top 100

World top 100 University

QS World Rankings 2021

Gold rated

for teaching as the University of Leeds

Teaching Excellence Framework (2017)

£50m+

annually

in research income

Academic research being presented to group

Research and innovation

Across our four schools we undertake leading research to drive forward understanding within our fields, whilst improving the provision of care and delivering meaningful impact for our partners and collaborators. This is enabled by world-renowned research staff and state-of-the-art facilities. Our vision is to apply our research, education and practice to improve health outcomes and quality of life for individuals and societies.