22 June 2022
A research volunteer from North Tyneside received a Platinum Champions Award from the Royal Voluntary Service as part of the Queen’s jubilee celebrations.
20 May 2022
The NIHR has launched a new campaign to celebrate the contribution of research volunteers across the country.
18 May 2022
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking for participants for a study investigating whether wearing a knee brace provides more pain relief to people with knee osteoarthritis compared to best primary care.
13 April 2022
The RELIEVE IBS-D trial continues to revolutionise research delivery by sharing the study provisional findings directly with participants, within 12 months of the study closing.
06 April 2022
One of the world’s first Omicron-specific variant vaccines is to be trialled in Newcastle and Middlesbrough
08 March 2022
The NIHR-supported GenOMICC study, the world’s largest study of the genetics of critical COVID-19, has revealed details about some of the biological mechanisms behind the severe form of the disease.
04 March 2022
The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial has found that baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis drug, reduces deaths in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 by around one-fifth.
04 March 2022
You are warmly invited to attend our annual network event on Wednesday 30 March 2022 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham.
22 February 2022
320 delegates signed up to attend a successful diabetes event hosted by four northern NIHR Local Clinical Research Networks (LCRNs) on 9 February 2022.
07 February 2022
ComBAT (Community-based Behavioural Activation Training) will develop, implement and evaluate Behavioural Activation, a brief psychological therapy, for young people aged 12-18 years who have mild to moderate depression.
03 February 2022
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today authorised Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the UK.
02 February 2022
Newcastle researchers have dosed the first patient in Europe as part of a clinical trial to find treatments for a rare genetic disease.
14 January 2022
The NIHR Clinical Research Network North East and North Cumbria has recruited ten new staff members to the Direct Delivery Team: a brand-new workforce that seeks to support the delivery of research across a broad range of settings.
06 January 2022
CORNET aims to bring together trainees and consultants who are interested in undertaking high quality collaborative research by promoting an inclusive approach to research within the region.
21 December 2021
The UK’s first participant has been recruited at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
09 December 2021
Taking part is easy. Local people who receive a positive PCR test for COVID-19 will be contacted by the trial team or a local healthcare professional, such as a GP or a research nurse, to consider enrolling in the study.
23 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 Newcastle upon Tyne.
22 November 2021
“When we went into the pandemic, I felt I needed to do something."
19 November 2021
NEPRRA is a successful, long standing research collaborative consisting of all palliative trainees in the northern deanery.
08 November 2021
Today (Monday 8 November) is World Radiography Day. The date marks the anniversary of the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895.
01 November 2021
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has received funding from a leading charity to explore whether certain types of medications already used to treat other conditions could slow progression of motor neurone disease (MND).
26 October 2021
Research Champions from North East and North Cumbria and Yorkshire and the Humber gathered for a virtual event on Wednesday 22 September. The event, “Widening Research Access in Care Homes” was suggested by a small working group of research champions to see how they can work alongside care homes to promote research.
20 October 2021
Staff from The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust experienced the benefits of the Participant in Research Experience Survey (PRES) first-hand when they used feedback from the survey to improve the checking-in process for COVID-19 vaccine trial participants arriving for their appointment slot.
08 October 2021
Monday 4 October marked the start of our ‘Your Path in Research’ campaign.
06 October 2021
Newcastle Health Innovation Partners (NHIP) is delighted to announce Newcastle University has been selected as a provider of the prestigious NIHR-AoMRC Clinician Researcher Credentials Postgraduate Certificate which focuses on the practical elements of clinical research.
