Category: All News
Date: 25 November 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Com-COV 3 COVID-19 vaccine study calls on teenager volunteers in Cambridgeshire
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 Cambridgeshire.
Date: 21 October 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Positive phase 3 results reported in trial for new Covid-19 vaccine
A clinical trial supported by the NIHR Cambridge CRF for a new vaccine against COVID-19 has received positive Phase 3 results.
Date: 7 October 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald awarded The Don Listwin award
Congratulations to researcher, Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, who has received the Don Listwin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection.
Date: 7 October 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Could a cancer drug be key to helping patients recover from a heart attack?
A stage 2 trial is underway in Cambridge to investigate whether a cancer drug could improve the recovery of heart attack patients, by targeting the immune system.
Date: 4 October 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Creating a new diagnostic test for oesophageal cancer
It has been 20 years since Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald came up with the idea of the cytosponge. Find out how the new device was created and how the NIHR Cambridge CRF supported the early clinical trials.
Date: 1 September 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Researchers eye up new gene therapy trial that could reverse hereditary blindness
Restoration of sight from a rare genetic mutation may now become a reality thanks to a prestigious award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Moorfields Eye Charity.
Date: 24 August 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge researchers win Croonian Medal and Lecture 2022
Congratulations to Cambridge researchers Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly and Professor Sadaf Farooqi, who have been awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2022 from the Royal Society.
Date: 24 June 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Red4Research
On 18th June, we asked our team to wear Red4Research to show their support and appreciation for all those participating, undertaking and supporting COVID-19 research.
Date: 17 June 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge GPs launch ‘pill on a string’ cancer check
Cambridge device to spot early signs of cancer is being trialled for the first time to GP patients in the UK.
Date: 14 June 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge begins world-first COVID-19 vaccine booster study
Researchers in Cambridge have welcomed their first participants in a new UK study to understand the effects of a ‘booster’ dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Date: 21 May 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
World-first covid-19 vaccine booster study launches in Eastern region
Volunteers from the East of England will soon be able to receive a third ‘booster’ COVID-19 vaccine through a new Government-funded clinical trial.
Date: 20 May 2021
Category: CRF News • news category 1
Author: Caroline McMahon
International Clinical Trials Day 2021
To celebrate International Clinical Trials Day 2021, we are publishing a series of posts on social media of personal stories of what research means to them.
Date: 6 May 2021
Category: CRF News • Industry News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Royal Society elects Professor Sadaf Farooqi
The Royal Society announced in May that Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, is among this year’s newly elected fellows.
Date: 15 March 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Why I took part in Covid-19 Research
With the help of research, we now have insights on how to treat Covid-19, but still very little information with the long-term effects of COVID-19, particularly what the ongoing medical, psychological and rehabilitation needs are for this group of patients, and enable them to make as full a recovery as possible.
Date: 15 March 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Covid-19 Research1 Year on: Meet Our Outreach Team
The NIHR Cambridge CRF are supporting COVID Platform Trials, 7 days a week, working alongside the medics in screening patients who meet the criteria for Covid-19 Therapeutic Trials: TACTIC R, TACTIC E, DARE-19 and RECOVERY.
Date: 11 January 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Honour for expert who set up early testing for Covid-19
Dr Michael Weekes, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for his services to for services to the NHS during Covid-19.
Date: 11 January 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved for use in UK
On 30 December 2020, we woke up to the news that we had been waiting for, Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved!
Date: 11 January 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Professor Farooqi awarded the Dale Medal 2021
Congratulations to Professor Farooqi, who has been awarded the Dale Medal 2021, the highest accolade bestowed by The Society for Endocrinology.
Date: 11 January 2021
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
UKCRF Network shared what we did during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has required an urgent response from both clinicians and researchers across the UK to clinically support patients and ensure clinical research studies are set-up rapidly to find effective diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.
Date: 4 September 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients
Cambridge University Hospitals has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers showed that this approach was superior to virus detection alone for diagnosing COVID-19 disease.
Date: 27 August 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
INCLUDE, making health research more inclusive
The NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) INCLUDE steering group, following discussions with key stakeholders, ongoing research and hosting a series of events, are delighted to have developed new guidance.
Date: 24 August 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Rapid Covid testing results published
April 2020, research staff from NIHR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility were deployed onto the wards at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) to start using a new test for a research trial to diagnose COVID-19.
Date: 24 August 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
What are the after effects of Coronavirus?
Addenbrooke’s has set up a number of clinics to specifically help patients address any ongoing health issues, one of the clinics is the Complex Covid Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) clinic for patients with complex needs who need to be seen by two or more specialities, such as a neurologist or a respiratory consultant.
Date: 10 August 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Cytosponge and BEST 3 Trial feature on Look East
A ‘pill on a string’ pill test can identify ten times more people with Barrett’s Oesophagus than the current usual GP route, according to a new study funded by Cancer Research UK and published this week in The Lancet.
Date: 10 August 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Nature’s epidural: Genetic variant may explain why some women don’t need pain relief during childbirth
Women who do not need pain relief during childbirth may be carriers of a key genetic variant that acts a natural epidural, say scientists at the University of Cambridge.
Date: 31 July 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Sponge on a string test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis
A ‘sponge on a string’ pill test can identify ten times more people with Barrett’s oesophagus than the usual GP route, according to a new study funded by Cancer Research UK and published in The Lancet.
Date: 9 July 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Dr Estee Török on tackling Covid-19
Dr Estee Török, is a Honorary Consultant in infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Principal Investigator at Cambridge University Hospital, talks about her experiences and passion for infectious diseases and leading a novel coronavirus vaccine ‘COV002’ trial, in Cambridge.
Date: 29 June 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
COV002: Covid-19 Vaccine Trial
The COV002 trial aims to assess how well people across a broad range of ages could be protected from COVID-19 using a new vaccine called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. It will also provide valuable information on safety of the vaccine and its ability to generate good immune responses against the virus.
Date: 28 May 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Men can be nurses too
This year is International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020, a year-long celebration of NHS nurses and midwives during Florence Nightingale’s bicentennial year and we would like to highlight two of our male nurses and share their nursing careers.
Date: 12 May 2020
Category: CRF News • news category 1
Author: Caroline McMahon
Celebrating International Nurses Day 2020
12 May 2020 is International Nurses Day. Caroline Saunders, our Clinical Director of Operations takes a moment to reflect and to share her thoughts.
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