09 December 2021
Local GPs and healthcare professionals have today begun enrolling participants across the east of England to a first-of-its-kind clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of new oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 - which can be safely taken at home.
01 December 2021
Researchers from across the East of England have been recognised in the Cancer Research Excellence Awards at this year’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) Eastern Cancer Conference.
24 November 2021
Researchers running the University of Oxford-led Com-COV programme have started enrolling young people aged 12 to 16 years old to receive a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including in Cambridgeshire.
05 November 2021
A GP in Cambridge has won a prestigious national award honouring the enormous contribution they have made in delivering research to find new treatments and care pathways for NHS patients over the last year.
04 November 2021
A care home in Cheshunt has become the first in Hertfordshire to sign up to a new scheme being run by the NIHR which helps homes carry out research to find new ways to care for people.
10 October 2021
World Mental Health Day 2021: Eastern team calls for more people to be part of vital mental health research.
13 September 2021
Dr Nuru Noor, Specialist Trainee in Gastroenterology at CUH, has been announced as a winner in this year's Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Awards, run jointly with the NIHR.
07 September 2021
People with hearing conditions from across East Anglia are being invited to join a new group to help run research and change clinical service development at Cambridge University Hospitals.
05 August 2021
Results from a vital COVID-19 trial reveal that treating hospitalised COVID-19 patients who have acute respiratory failure with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduces the need for invasive mechanical ventilation.
10 June 2021
GPs across the East of England played a key role in finding ways to treat people with COVID-19 and other conditions over last year, data from the NIHR show.
21 May 2021
Volunteers from the East of England will soon be able to receive a third ‘booster’ COVID-19 vaccine through a new Government-funded clinical trial launching this week, the Health Secretary has announced.
20 May 2021
this InternatioThe NIHR is saying thank you to everyone who has supported and participated in their work over the past year, including more than 120,000 people in the Eastern region.
22 March 2021
Surajit was one of 500 people who recently volunteered to take part in a research trial at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) to test the effectiveness of a new COVID-19 vaccine. He is now raising awareness of the importance of vaccine research and what it is like to take part in it.
22 March 2021
Local people across East Anglia have played an important role in reaching this remarkable milestone, with more than 32,000 participants taking part in nationally-prioritised COVID-19 studies supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network Eastern.
17 March 2021
Researchers at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) have adapted a vital stroke study to allow volunteers to join and participate safely at home.
01 March 2021
2100 people in East Anglia will help test screening for a common heart condition which is known to be a trigger for strokes.
04 December 2020
Cambridge NHS Trusts collaborate to run the latest phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial
11 November 2020
Helping people with prediabetes to make small changes to their lifestyle, diet and physical activity can almost halve the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of the Norfolk Diabetes Prevention Study (NDPS).
01 October 2020
In a time when the research world has never needed to be so creative, one Eastern Research lead has taken this to another level by composing a poem for National Poetry Day
03 September 2020
People across the Eastern region are being asked to play an important part in helping to find a vaccine for COVID-19 by signing up to the NHS registry.
02 September 2020
Eastern patients play vital role in practice-changing COVID-19 study
13 August 2020
A ‘pill on a string’ test has been proven to identify ten times more people with possible early signs of oesophageal cancer than the standard method of diagnosis, NIHR-supported research found.
25 June 2020
Engineer who helped build Norfolk Hospital helps UK researchers make COVID-19 discovery
21 April 2020
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (JPUH) is leading the way being the first NHS Trust in the eastern region currently running a new clinical trial which seeks to find alternatives to in-demand ventilators in treating critically ill patients with COVID-19.
09 April 2020
Eastern network of research staff is helping to speed up the process of delivering research to find treatments for COVID-19 in NHS hospitals and GP practices
