Research & Innovation

What I think about when I think about research

Posted: Monday Nov 2nd 2015 Author: Nailah Brown

Nailah Brown, a Research Coordinator at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital talks about her experience of what it takes to run a great research study.

Alan’s story

Posted: Monday Nov 2nd 2015

Alan was diagnosed with diabetes aged 22 and he didn't understand the importance of managing the condition

Manchester named as one of six initial centres of excellence in the UK Precision Medicine network

Posted: Thursday Oct 29th 2015

The Precision Medicine Catapult, the UK's innovation centre for precision medicine, has recently announced Manchester will be one of the centres of excellence in the UK Precision Medicine Network.

Northern climes make a difference with growth hormone treatment

Posted: Wednesday Oct 28th 2015

A study of children with growth hormone deficiency from 14 countries measured their rate of growth for a year whilst being treated and mapped their response against the amount of summer daylight exp

Are patients interested in pharmaceutical research?

Posted: Wednesday Oct 28th 2015

It is important to involve patients and the public in pharmaceutical medicines research and development. Our Public Programmes team examine who is interested, who is not and why.

How the use of brain imaging is furthering our understanding of Lupus

Posted: Tuesday Oct 27th 2015 Author: Michelle Barraclough

Michelle Baraclough is a researcher at NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit. In this blog Michelle discusses her research into neurocognitive function in patients with lupus.

One hundred cancer patients a year in Manchester benefit from scan technology

Posted: Tuesday Oct 27th 2015

Researchers in Manchester have used recent advances in PET scanning technology to reduce the radiation dose for both patients and staff by up to 30%, allowing an addition of an annual 100 scans a year