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NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility

Results from a national research awareness survey, supported by the NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF), have been recently completed by the UK CRF Network.

Around 200 staff attended events held at CMFT, The Christie and UHSM on and around 15 May to celebrate ICTD and learn more about the CRF’s five-year strategy and how to access its services.

NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) celebrates start of funding with the launch of a new website.

Five research theme leads from the NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit have been included in a list of the top 30 most cited rheumatology authors in the Europe.

A study into a new treatment for Sanfilippo disease, a rare and fatal condition which causes progressive dementia in children, is progressing well with results set to be published later this year.

Congratulations to Liza Swart, Clinical Research Nurse at the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Manchester Clinical Research Facility, who was nominated under the Mentor of the Year.

Five blind Manchester patients will be among the first in the country to receive revolutionary bionic eye implants funded by the NHS.

Congratulations to the research team at the Kellgren Centre who recently recruited their 200th patient to the LEAP study.