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Empowering Innovation: Highlights from the Essentials for Innovation Showcase and Launch of the Innovator Training Scheme E-Learning Resource

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) marked the launch of its Innovator Training Scheme e-Learning resource during a recent ‘Essentials for Innovation’ showcase event.

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Spotlight On: Under-Researched Conditions Cluster

Researchers are addressing health conditions that affect many people, but which traditionally have had less research undertaken, through our Under-Researched Conditions Cluster. Find out more about the impact of our cutting-edge research in the second film of our Spotlight On series.

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Manchester researchers successfully awarded £1.8m grant to help identify effective steroid use for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Researchers from Manchester BRC have been successfully awarded a Health Technology Assessment grant for £1.8 million to potentially identify the most effective and safest way of using steroids for patients with uncontrolled Rheumatoid Arthritis who are starting an anti-rheumatic medicine.

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Bridging the Gap – March 2024

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In his last ever Bridging the Gap blog as Director of the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Professor Ian Bruce reflects on the recent inaugural Scientific Advisory Board meeting and the growth of Manchester BRC since 2017.

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NIHR Manchester BRC announces new Director appointment

Professor Anne Barton has been formally appointed as the Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

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Largest study on genetic risk for type 2 diabetes published

An international study of more than 2.5 million people has identified parts of the genome associated with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in diverse population groups from across the globe.

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Environmental Sustainability in National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Laboratories

Author: Nisha Nair

To mark this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which is taking place on 11 February 2024 and focuses on Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Nisha Nair has written a blog about why sustainability is so important to her and how this relates to the laboratory environment.

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The NIHR Associate Principal Investigator training scheme – a blog by Dr James Wingfield Digby

Author: James Wingfield Digby

In this blog, Clinical Research Fellow and PhD student Dr James Wingfield Digby shares his insights from the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator training scheme, which gave him practical experience of delivering clinical research.

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