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Our University can trace its origins back to the School of Medicine and Surgery, established in 1834. Today we are a world leader in a wide range of health and care research programmes. This includes drug discovery, rare diseases, ageing and multimorbidity and more.
Your clinical research ambitions could be supported by a range of colleagues from:
Newcastle Health Research Partnership
Newcastle Joint Research Office
Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Postgraduate degrees
Newcastle Health Research Partnership
Newcastle Health Research Partnership brings together the region's leading research, NHS and city partners to address health inequalities.
The partnership is formed by:
Newcastle University
Newcastle City Council
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Learn more about Newcastle Health Research Partnership
Newcastle Joint Research Office
Together with Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we have established the Newcastle Joint Research Office (NJRO). It is your gateway to a network of expertise enabling life-changing clinical and lab research.
The team can support you in the development, delivery and implementation of world-class, clinical, translational and experimental research through:
over 400 research staff across many roles supporting research from concept to closedown
dedicated Oncology Research Team covering a broad range of indications and therapeutic areas
embedded clinical delivery teams
research-active pharmacy team
Through the NJRO, you can access more nationally-accredited specialist services than any other centre in the country.
The expertise of the NJRO team includes:
phase 1 to 4
clinical trials
capabilities with dedicated facilities
world-leading research in
rare diseases
including Muscular Dystrophy, Mitochondrial and CAR-T
cancer
drug discovery
through to clinical evaluation taking nine first-in-class agents into clinics
quality improvement methodologies embedded to meet sponsor and researcher expectations
NIHR CRN recruitment to target measure - consistently 80%
Newcastle Joint Research Office
Industry links
Strong relationships with:
Astex, Novartis, Roche, Genentech
Site partnerships:
UK’s first Pfizer INSPIRE Site
flagship site with Medpace
alliance site with Parexel
partner site with IQVIA
Cancer Research UK
collaborations with SMEs:
Your Health & Care
Nanovery
Lightox
collaborative working with Clinithink to improve patient recruitment to clinical trials
Rare disease trials
We’ve been exploring new ways to design and analyse rare disease trials that result in good-quality evidence without needing as many participants.
Read the blog
Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
The unit can support you with the design, development, delivery and analysis of high quality clinical trials and studies. Projects could include:
investigational medicinal products
device trials
clinical investigations
surgical trials
innovative designs
pilot and feasibility trials
The unit achieved full registration as a UKCRC unit in 2007 - registration number 22.
Explore the Clinical Trial Unit website
Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the institute works to move research from "bench to bedside."
Our work in human illness and disease identifies new areas for mechanistic study and challenges for healthcare delivery. Knowledge gained in laboratories is transformed into new diagnostic tests and treatments.
Find out more about the institute
Blog: translating discovery science to clinical setting
Postgraduate degrees
The Clinical Research MClinRes, PGDip, and PGCert
allow you to study clinical research in the context of your workplace
Our courses are suitable for any clinical research topic, including:
medical
surgical
mental health
allied health care
Our programmes encourage you to
plan, conduct, analyse and write up clinical research
You'll do this in the context of your professional role. You'll learn and develop skills in clinical research in your area of expertise. This is the most valuable way of consolidating the theory you'll learn on the course.
Clinical Research MClinRes, PGDip, PGCert (E-learning)
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Centre for Rare Disease
Driven by research goals and a patient-centred approach, we improve therapy options, outcomes, and quality of life for people with a rare disease.
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