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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.
Continue reading full article: Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – April 2025
Two professors from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have been appointed Senior Investigators by the NIHR.
Continue reading full article: Manchester researchers receive prestigious national appointments
A team of international clinical experts, including Manchester BRC researcher Dr Riina Rautemaa-Richardson, have published the new global guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of Candida infections.
Continue reading full article: Global guidelines on management of fungal infections caused by Candida published
The NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre has appointed Dr Gareth Kitchen as Co-Lead and Mr Adam Haque as Deputy Lead for Industry and Commercialisation.
Continue reading full article: New Co-Lead and Deputy Lead appointed for Industry and Commercialisation
In celebration of this year’s International Women's Day, the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre is excited to release a special podcast in which Professor Sandra Bucci is interviewed by early career researcher Dr Ola Abdelhadi.
Continue reading full article: International Women’s Day Podcast 2025: A special episode with Professor Sandra Bucci and Dr Ola Abdelhadi
Latest research led from Manchester could revolutionise the diagnosis of Perrault syndrome, a rare genetic condition that results in hearing loss. In women it also leads to early menopause or infertility.
Continue reading full article: Manchester-led research finds genetic causes of rare condition linked to hearing loss and infertility
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Mini pancreata are fighting cancer
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Ethnicity and paediatric hearing health inequality in England