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Tuesday 22 June 2021
Supporting healthcare innovations in the UK and beyond
In this blog Dr Christopher McKee talks about his role in helping to spread and adopt new ingenious healthcare technologies within the NHS and beyond.
I have been working in the healthcare innovation space for the past two years after a five-year stint in the private sector. This was following the completion of my PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. In...Read more
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Thursday 8 April 2021
Early phase trial with Medivir
Led by Professor Philip Conaghan at the Leeds NIHR BRC this research activity was established as a feasible, short term trial to assess osteoarthritis structure modification.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a...Read more
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Wednesday 24 March 2021
Dr Jenny Murira shares her experiences of a year in Covid
In February 2020, I was working as an infection research fellow mainly running HIV drug trials and flu studies, when our team became aware of COVID-19. If a novel infection...
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Tuesday 16 March 2021
Testing the efficacy and safety of drugs to reduce the severe immune overreaction seen in COVID-19 patients
Leeds BRC together with Leeds CRF and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have been involved in several nationally prioritised, urgent public health research studies related to COVID-19. These included CANCOVID...
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Thursday 11 March 2021
Working as One Team at NIHR Leeds CRF
The COVID-19 pandemic required an urgent response from both clinicians and researchers across the world. UK Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs) have worked collectively with their local infrastructure and research colleagues...
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Monday 8 March 2021
International Women's Day - Jane Freeman
I didn't start out to become a scientist. I fell into it by a twist of fate - an injury that meant my music degree was no longer really on...
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Thursday 18 February 2021
Leeds Children's Hospital announces childhood cancer survival rate in Yorkshire among the best in the world
The childhood cancer survival rate in Yorkshire is among the best in the world, with 86 out of every 100 children diagnosed with the disease before their 15th birthday living...
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Tuesday 10 November 2020
From Bristol to Leeds: My Research Pathway to Leeds Children's Hospital
Hello, My name is Mark Wareing and I am a Senior Clinical Trials Co-ordinator at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. I got my first taste of research in 1988 as an...
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Monday 14 September 2020
Starting a Research Career: Leeds Cares Funded Clinical Research Internship Scheme
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's (LTHT) official charity partner Leeds Cares has provided a source of funding the trusts Research and Innovation department to host the 'Leeds Cares Clinical Research Internship...
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