10 June 2021
A NHS trust in North Thames is the first site in the UK to recruit to an international vaccine study looking at the safety, tolerability and immune response generated by the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women.
21 May 2021
The first COVID-19 vaccine study in the UK recruiting pregnant women has been launched at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).
20 May 2021
A joint statement from the Chief Operating Officers of CRN North Thames, CRN South London, CRN North West London and CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex to mark International Clinical Trials Day
19 May 2021
A study into 'Long COVID' in young people, supported by CRN North Thames, is recruiting strongly across the country.
19 May 2021
A ‘booster’ vaccine will now be available to take part in a new clinical trial at a North Thames trust, the Health Secretary has announced.
12 May 2021
Lorraine Hodsdon talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the incredible adaptability of research nurses and the key role they play in patients’ welfare.
07 May 2021
A new study to determine whether booster COVID-19 vaccines should be given at the same time as flu vaccines.
30 April 2021
As we emerge from lockdown, Barts Health NHS Trust reflects on one of the successful studies that is playing a crucial part in the UK’s COVID-19 recovery
26 April 2021
People from Camden are needed to take part in the latest UK COVID-19 vaccine study, which is happening at two NHS trusts in North Thames.
14 April 2021
Researchers investigating whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Pfizer vaccine can be used in combination, have announced a new study including the Moderna and Novavax vaccines.
26 March 2021
New research carried out at the Royal Free NHS Trust will help doctors identify whether or not a patient is likely to reject a transplanted kidney.
26 March 2021
People with heart failure and atrial fibrillation who are hospitalised with Covid-19 are at greater risk of death, according to a large European study involving University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
15 March 2021
Daily infusions of abumin provide no additional benefit to patients hospitalised with advanced liver disease when compared to standard care, research has found.
05 March 2021
Around half of those hospitalised with COVID-19 have suffered some damage to their heart, according to a new study which included patients at two trusts in North Thames.
22 February 2021
A new study carried out with NIHR support shows that on average, three children in the UK are newly affected by a visual disability every day.
11 February 2021
More than a third of people who took part in a trial of a game-changer weight loss drug lost one-fifth of their total body weight.
04 February 2021
On World Cancer Day, Research Champion Melody McLaren shares her experience of breast cancer research.
04 February 2021
The NIHR-supported 'Com-Cov' study, which will be run at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), will determine the effects of using a different vaccine for the second dose to the first dose, in addition to two different intervals between doses.
01 February 2021
Royal Free NHS Trust recruited to the Novavax trial, which shows that a vaccine is 89.3% effective at preventing COVID-19
27 January 2021
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recruited the first European participant to a trial looking at treating non-hospitalised Covid-19 patients with the drug remdesivir.
04 January 2021
UCLH has welcomed the news that the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the MHRA.
28 December 2020
Researchers are testing a new antibody treatment, that may prevent people who have been exposed to the virus from developing Covid-19.
03 December 2020
People experiencing symptoms likely to be caused by a Covid-19 infection can take part in the PRINCIPLE trial if they are 65 and over, or over 50 with underlying health conditions.
16 November 2020
Two trials at Barts Health hospitals look at the use of Covid-19 antibodies to save lives of those with the virus..
16 November 2020
Barts Health NHS Trust is callling on volunteers to take part in the latest COVID-19 vaccine trial.