A new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre of excellence is to be established in Manchester. It will build on the international research excellence of the partnership between the Central Manchester & Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Manchester. It will focus on the development, testing and uptake of new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat ill-health, including the harnessing of genetic technologies. It joins NIHR Biomedical Research Centres in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool and Newcastle.
The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery has been established at Imperial College London to undertake further research and innovation into medical robotics. The new centre is funded by £10 million of philanthropic support from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and Lady Hamlyn.
The Malaria Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been awarded grant funding of $59 million in total from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and other sources. The money will be used to help find new ways of treating and preventing malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS.
You can read more stories like this one in the April edition of Science Insight.
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