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Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – July 2025

Author: Professor Anne Barton

In her latest blog Professor Anne Barton, Director of Manchester BRC, focuses on the implementation of the new Digital Infrastructure Strategy across Manchester BRC.

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Innovator Insights blog: Uniting industry, NHS and academia in respiratory innovation with Dr Gareth Kitchen

Author: Dr Gareth Kitchen

In this Innovator Insights blog, Dr Gareth Kitchen shares how cross-sector partnerships, translational research, and patient-centred thinking are essential for turning scientific discoveries into real-world healthcare solutions.

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PhDs in Focus: Bringing the family into breast cancer prevention

Author: Mai Haiba

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Mai Haiba outlines how their PhD project focuses on the role of the family in helping women lose weight to reduce their breast cancer risk, as part of our Cancer Prevention and Early Detection theme.

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Innovator Insights blog: Integrating digital innovations in mental health care with Professor Sandra Bucci

Author: Professor Sandra Bucci

In this Innovator Insights blog, Professor Sandra Bucci shares their experience of co-founding spin-out company CareLoop Health and how this broadened her perspective of integrating digital innovations in mental health to the NHS.

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Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – April 2025

Author: Professor Anne Barton

In her latest blog Professor Anne Barton, Director of Manchester BRC, shares what we are doing to advance discoveries that improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people.

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PhDs in Focus: Mini pancreata are fighting cancer

Author: Sofia Kochkina

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Sofia Kochkina outlines how their PhD project aims to develop a laboratory model of pancreatic cancer that could be used to identify drugs capable of fighting it, as part of the Cancer Precision Medicine theme.

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PhDs in Focus: Ethnicity and paediatric hearing health inequality in England

Author: Sathveeka Kasthurisamy Soundararajan

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Sathveeka Kasthurisamy Soundararajan outlines how their project is focused on reducing paediatric hearing inequalities within different ethnicities, with a particular focus on South Asian communities, as part of the Hearing Health theme.

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Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – February 2025

Author: Professor Anne Barton

In her latest blog Professor Anne Barton, Director of Manchester BRC, discusses our commitment to delivering on Research Inclusion and examples of this across our 4 Clusters.

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