Articles tagged with 'health' | University of Manchester

UK Biobank, the world’s most significant source of data and biological samples for health researchers, has been successful in its £127.6m to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure fund to move to a new purpose-built facility at Bruntwoo...

Hearing loss is unlikely to be a common symptom of Covid-19, a study led by The University of Manchester and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) scientists have shown....

Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP HonFREng, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser who played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been appointed an honorary Chair in Biological Sciences in the University of Manchester’s Faculty of ...

New analysis of the government’s Community Renewal Fund allocation has found that the North missed out on funding to the tune of £21 million.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, officially opened a successful launch event to celebrate the multi-million-pound funding boost for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) a...

World-leading scientists, clinicians and operational staff are now moving into a new £150m cancer research centre at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust’s site on Wilmslow Road in Withington. The building is part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centr...

Patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions are vulnerable to long term opioid use, with up to 1 in 3 of those with rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia potentially at risk, suggest researchers at The University of Manchester...

Three outstanding University of Manchester academics have been honoured among eighty researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world who have been elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of scienc...

The University of Manchester is among eight institutions to receive a share of £73 million in Wellcome funding to establish a Discovery Research Platform for Cell-Matrix Biology.

The first participant has received a dose of a new Zika virus vaccine being trialled by the University of Liverpool at the Clinical Research Facility within the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, based on work  at The University of Manchester,...

Genes & Health, a pioneering genetic research programme that aims to improve health for British Bangladeshi and British Pakistani communities, has been given a prestigious ‘Longitudinal Population Study’ award of £2 million from the Medical Research ...

An internationally renowned expert in andrology – or male fertility -  has been appointed to the University of Manchester as Deputy Vice President and Deputy Dean of the faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health....

A preclinical biotechnology company, spun out of The University of Manchester, has announced the completion of a €72 million finance deal to develop the treatment of a leading cause of blindness.

People who have self-harmed struggle to access appropriate aftercare and psychological therapies, according to a new study carried out by researchers at The University of Manchester.

A new report, involving University of Manchester researchers, has found a worrying pattern of lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and worse health and wellbeing in the North of England.

A major UK study has discovered that the disturbed sleep patterns in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 was likely to be a driver of breathlessness.

A clinical trial project led by The University of Manchester has scooped the Bionow Healthcare Project of the Year Award for their innovative multi-drug pan-cancer platform trial that is helping to find new treatments for rare cancers....

Scientists at skincare brand No7  and The University of Manchester, have announced the creation of a new ‘super peptide’ blend proven to bio-hack the skin’s natural repair process, signalling renewal of over 50 key proteins including collagen and fib...

New research evaluating the potential cost savings of a therapy for babies displaying early autism signs has predicted a three dollar return to Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for every dollar invested in therapy....

Parents of the one in a 1000 newborn babies identified with hearing loss, might soon be able to have the reassurance that their babies are hearing speech through their hearing aids, thanks to a new test....

Burnout in GPs has been linked to higher antibiotic and strong opioid prescribing, especially in the more deprived areas of the North of England, finds research funded by a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) centre based at The Un...

Scientists at The University of Manchester are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help unravel the secrets of gene mutations that can lead to babies being born with abnormalities in their hearts.

Greater Manchester health and care partners, in collaboration with academia and industry, today (16 March 2023) announce the launch of a new multi-million pound health innovation accelerator focused on rapidly improving the diagnosis and treatment of...

The University of Manchester is at the heart of four new projects that have received a share of millions of pounds awarded to the Greater Manchester Innovation Accelerator, to turn cutting-edge technologies into businesses in Greater Manchester – in ...

Schoolchildren from across Greater Manchester flocked to Manchester Museum to see what was on offer for the annual British Science week from 10 – 19 of March.

An initiative founded by Professor Jamie Kirkham from The University of Manchester,  Professor Paula Williamson the University of Liverpool and colleagues has won the inaugural MRC Open Science Impact Prize 2022 at a ceremony in Birmingham this week ...

Imaging researchers have taken a major step towards their ultimate goal of identifying cancers that are starved of oxygen so that altered treatment can be used to target them more effectively.

Greater Manchester Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning behaviour of a type of immune cell is linked to specific symptoms of long- COVID.

A University of Manchester programme is aiming to level up healthcare provision and education between Nairobi and western Kenya and provide western Kenya with the healthcare powerhouse it desperately needs....

A collaborative therapeutic development project between researchers at The University of Manchester and Duke University in the United States, has received funding from Four Points Innovation, a private company wholly-owned by affiliates of Deerfield ...