PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Author: Matt Church For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Matt Church outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project aims to better understand lung cancers without genetic defects to try to improve their outcome, as part of the Cancer Precision Medicine theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers
PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 Author: Zelpha D’Souza For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Zelpha D'Souza outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is investigating how to improve clinical trials in rare conditions, as part of the Rare Conditions theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition
PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer? Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 Author: Fraser Child For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Fraser Child outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project focuses on improving outcomes for patients with bladder cancer, as part of the Advanced Radiotherapy theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer?
The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2025 Five Manchester BRC bioinformaticians have shared what they learned from the European Conference on Computational Biology and how they are now applying this to their work analysing medical research data. Continue reading full article: The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference
Research led by Manchester identifies test to more accurately diagnose rare fungal pneumonia Posted: Friday, January 10, 2025 New research has shown that a DNA-based test is accurate for diagnosing fungal pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii in people with weakened immune systems. Continue reading full article: Research led by Manchester identifies test to more accurately diagnose rare fungal pneumonia
Manchester researcher awarded prestigious NIHR Research Professorship Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2025 Professor Emma Crosbie, Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Co-Theme Lead at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has been awarded a prestigious NIHR Research Professorship. Continue reading full article: Manchester researcher awarded prestigious NIHR Research Professorship
Brain scans to give crucial insight into childhood genetic disease Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 An international team of scientists are to set to use thousands of MRI brain scans from research teams around the world in a bid to study Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), a lifelong neurological condition. Continue reading full article: Brain scans to give crucial insight into childhood genetic disease
New project “PerPrev-CID” investigates innovative approaches for personalised prevention and early treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Manchester researchers are part of an international team aiming to advance risk prediction, early detection of disease progression and personalised prevention in rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease to improve patient outcomes. Continue reading full article: New project “PerPrev-CID” investigates innovative approaches for personalised prevention and early treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases