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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre: Leeds (BRC) is part of the NIHR and hosted by Leeds NHS Teaching Hospitals in partnership with the Universities of Leeds and York.
NIHR BRC: Leeds was awarded £21.76 million (2022-28), our largest single research award, with the mission to:
Drive innovation in preventing, diagnosis and treatment of ill-health
Deliver breakthrough experimental medical research that benefits patient care
Involve patients and the public in research design and delivery
Train the next generation of researchers through our Academic Capacity Development strategy
Our activities prioritise research focussed on those who are in most need, designed for each individual patient and aimed at increasing the speed research is adopted.
Our partnership unites leading clinicians and researchers to maximise the impact of innovative ideas and discoveries, transforming early-phase applied research into real-world clinical care results that contribute to the local and national economy.
Leeds: A leading hub for NIHR research and innovation
The NIHR BRC: Leeds is part of the city’s £40 million NIHR infrastructure.
Comprising three centres of excellence: NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Leeds,
NIHR Healthtech Research Centre
: Leeds and
NIHR Clinical Research Facility
: Leeds, each produces world-leading research.
Underpinned by the NIHR@Leeds Forum, academic researchers, clinicians and industry innovators are increasingly collaborating across these centres to cover the entire health research journey, taking new discoveries from ‘bench to bedside’ to improve people’s health.
The
NIHR BioResource: Leeds – Leeds Biomedical Research Centre
, part of LTHT, conducts research to improve outcomes for people with a range of diseases. It recruits volunteers with and without health conditions for studies on rare and common diseases, including COVID, inflammatory bowel disease, and immune-mediated inflammatory disease
s
. Blood samples may be linked with routine hospital tests to support vital research.
Leeds hosts the
national
NIHR Research Delivery Network Coordinating Centre (RDNCC)
, and the
regional
Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network
.
This outstanding NIHR@Leeds infrastructure is part of
Health Innovation Leeds
, one of the UK’s most interconnected ecosystems for health and care research and innovation and independently ranked as a top UK health innovation hub.
Our Research Themes
Initially dedicated to Musculoskeletal research, BRC:Leeds has expanded to a six-themed research centre as of December 2022 under NIHR BRC: Leeds Director Professor Philip Conaghan. To find out more about our work please explore our six research themes below.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection
Cardiometabolic Disease
Haematology
Musculoskeletal Disease
Pathology
Surgical Technologies
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