Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in partnership with Imperial College London, is one of only five National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive biomedical research centres (BRCs) in England. Our NIHR BRC status is a great honour and represents a huge opportunity to shape and influence the direction of translational research in this country over the next four years.
The purpose of NIHR BRC funding is to accelerate the progression of new scientific concepts into diagnoses and treatments for human sufferers.
Research themes
There are 16 themes in our research programme, listed below with their leaders:
• Cancer: Professor Charles Coombes
• Cardiovascular disease: Professor Peter Sever
• Children and adolescents: Professor Michael Levin
• Endocrine, metabolism and diabetes: Professor Desmond Johnston
• Genetics and genomic medicine: Professor Tim Aitman
• Haematology: Professor Jane Apperley
• Hepatology and gastroenterology: Professor Howard Thomas
• Imaging: Professor David Edwards
• Infection: Professor Jonathan Weber
• Neurosciences: Professor David Brooks
• Public and international health: Professor Paul Elliott
• Renal medicine and transplantation: Professor Charles Pusey
• Reproductive medicine and development: Professor Philip Bennett
• Respiratory disease: Professor Sebastian Johnston
• Rheumatology: Professor Marc Feldmann
• Surgery and surgical technology: Professor Sir Ara Darzi
NIHR BRC committee
The activities of our NIHR BRC are overseen by a committee that embraces all the above leaders together with administrative staff and executive representatives of the Trust and Imperial College London. The committee is responsible for the programme of work undertaken with the specific NIHR BRC funding, balancing the distribution of funding and ensuring all projects are progressing as rapidly as possible.
Contact
For more information about our NIHR BRC programme, please email:
Dr Carol FitzGerald c.fitzgerald@imperial.ac.uk
