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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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Personalised medicine in action: PROGRESS study advances to Phase II

The PROGRESS project, a national pharmacogenomics research study, is transforming primary care by incorporating genetic insights into everyday prescribing practices across England.

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PhDs in Focus: Developing a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer

Author: Rebecca Ford

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Rebecca Ford outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is part of the development of a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer, through the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection theme.

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PhDs in Focus: Leveraging routinely collected population health data for rare conditions

Author: Dr Tom Wright

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Dr Tom Wright outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project explores the use of routinely collected population-based health data to enhance our understanding of rare conditions and mental health, as part of the Rare Conditions theme.

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PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers

Author: Matt Church

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Matt Church outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project aims to better understand lung cancers without genetic defects to try to improve their outcome, as part of the Cancer Precision Medicine theme.

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PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition

Author: Zelpha D’Souza

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Zelpha D'Souza outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is investigating how to improve clinical trials in rare conditions, as part of the Rare Conditions theme.

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PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer?

Author: Fraser Child

For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Fraser Child outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project focuses on improving outcomes for patients with bladder cancer, as part of the Advanced Radiotherapy theme.

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The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference

Five Manchester BRC bioinformaticians have shared what they learned from the European Conference on Computational Biology and how they are now applying this to their work analysing medical research data.

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