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The PROGRESS project, a national pharmacogenomics research study, is transforming primary care by incorporating genetic insights into everyday prescribing practices across England.
Continue reading full article: Personalised medicine in action: PROGRESS study advances to Phase II
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Developing a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Leveraging routinely collected population health data for rare conditions
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition
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.
Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer?
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.
Continue reading full article: The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference
New research has shown that a DNA-based test is accurate for diagnosing fungal pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii in people with weakened immune systems.
Continue reading full article: Research led by Manchester identifies test to more accurately diagnose rare fungal pneumonia