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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.
Date: 17 April 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
NIHR Cambridge BRC and CRF begin working on new COVID-19 study
Research staff from NIHR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility (CRF) are being deployed onto the wards at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) to start using a new test for a research trial into COVID-19.
Date: 16 April 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Testing Methods Sourcing Platform for COVID-19
A new platform has been created to help work on new or existing methods of testing for COVID-19 .
Date: 19 March 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
World’s first artificial pancreas app licensed for people with type 1 diabetes in UK
Pioneering diabetes researcher Professor Roman Hovorka launched the world’s first licensed, downloadable artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes.
Date: 9 March 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Celebrating International Women’s Day
The NIHR Cambridge BRC highlighted the women working on research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. One of the women they featured, was Jo Piper, our CRF manager.
Date: 29 January 2020
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Depression trial prompts call for funding boost
More needs to be invested in mental health to find new treatments, since around a third of patients do not respond to anti-depressants currently available.
Date: 17 December 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Finding Owen a diagnosis
Owen was six months old when his parents noticed a few health concerns and he was invited to take part in the 100,000 Genomes project. The findings showed a gene that might be affecting him called THRA, a rare thyroid…
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Date: 21 October 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Your Path In Research
To support improved patient outcomes there is a need for health and care professionals to become more involved in research and expand their knowledge. The NIHR announced the start of an exciting new campaign, Your Path in Research, which coincides with…
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Date: 21 October 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Caroline McMahon
Record number of patients take part in clinical research
More people take part in NIHR research in the Eastern region than ever before! It has been announced that over 45,000 people – more than ever before – took part in NHS research in the Eastern region over the last…
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Date: 17 September 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Peanut allergies affected by exercise and sleep deprivation, new study finds
Sleep deprivation and exercise can make people with peanut allergies more sensitive, a study at Addenbrooke’s Hospital has found. Published on 17 September in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the team found that exercise and sleep deprivation each…
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Date: 11 June 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge researchers receive top prize
Double honour as Cambridge researchers receive most prestigious awards from the American Diabetes Association This year, the American Diabetes Association has awarded its two most prestigious scientific honours to researchers from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) and…
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Date: 24 May 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Be part of research for International Clinical Trials Day
To celebrate International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) held on 20 May 2019, the CRF took part in the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) #BePartofResearch campaign. The aim: to encourage more patients, carers and the public to get involved with…
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Date: 5 April 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
CRF makes front page
Did you see the CRF in the Cambridge Independent in February? Katie Carr, metabolic nutritionist, featured on the front page and double page spread of the health supplement. The article discussed why some people find it difficult to loose weight…
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Date: 6 March 2019
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Clinical trials launch at CRF for new prostate biopsy device
A device developed by a Cambridge researcher to make prostate biopsies safer has begun clinical trials at the NIHR Cambridge CRF. University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) researcher and urologist, Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam (right), first developed the CamProbe…
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Date: 27 November 2018
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
HRH The Duchess Of Cornwall visits Cambridge CRF to see the artificial pancreas
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall visited Addenbrooke’s Hospital on Tuesday 27 November to see the world-leading type 1 diabetes technology being developed there by Professor Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge. The Duchess, who is President of the type 1 diabetes…
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Date: 21 June 2018
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
CCRC L5 nominated for team award
The NIHR Cambridge CRF L5 staff have been nominated for a Cambridge University Hospitals ‘You Made a Difference’ team award. The award aims to recognise both teams and individual staff members who have ‘made a difference’ to patients, visitors or…
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Date: 21 May 2018
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
National research awareness survey results
The NIHR Cambridge CRF took part in a national research awareness survey, where patients, staff and young people around the UK were asked about their understanding of health research. So far, the survey has received nearly 2,000 responses. Click on…
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Date: 16 May 2018
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Roman talks about the Artificial Pancreas
Professor Roman Hovorka was interviewed earlier this year by DigiBete – an online platform with information and educational resources for Type 1 Diabetes – to talk about the Artificial Pancreas. The device measures blood glucose levels continuously and transmit the information…
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Date: 3 May 2018
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Challenge Project
Challenge projects are developed in close collaboration with partners in industry, healthcare and academia, in association with Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology staff. They provide a unique opportunity to develop: a practical understanding of science practical science skills curriculum…
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Date: 24 November 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Young people in research programme launches
In collaboration with the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Cambridge CRF and Trust’s Work Experience team, the NIHR Cambridge BRC Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team have launched a Young People in Research Programme. Twenty sixth-formers (from six local colleges) joined in October and…
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Date: 3 August 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge welcomes next generation of scientists
On Thursday 3rd August, the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre welcomed the London International Youth Science Forum. Entering its 59th edition, the two week trip for young scientists aged between 16-21 from over 70 different countries, got to visit some of…
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Date: 19 July 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Researchers win Public Engagement in Research Award
Researchers from Cambridge’s departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry have won a prestigious award for public engagement in research. Since the commencement of their research programme to develop drugs to treat Type 1 diabetes, Dr Waldron-Lynch, Ms. Kennet and Ms. Anselmiova…
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Date: 15 June 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Research never sleeps
Did you catch #CUHNightshift? Run by the main Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) communications department, the team went round the hospital and tweeted throughout the night to show people what happens at CUH when most of us are asleep. The NIHR Cambridge…
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Date: 15 June 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge CRF takes part in ICTD
The NIHR Cambridge CRF team took part in an event run by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) on Thursday 18th May to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH). ICTD is part of a national…
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Date: 15 June 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Trial to test for Barrett’s oesophagus launches in GP surgeries across UK
Funded by the Cambridge CRUK, developed at the NIHR Cambridge BRC and Cambridge CRF, trials have begun in GP surgeries allowing primary care staff to test for Barrett’s oesophagus. Researchers hope to assess whether the Cytosponge – pill on a string, will increase the…
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Date: 30 May 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Cambridge CRF nurses come out on top
Two of our NIHR Cambridge CRF nurses have won top prizes at a research conference in Cambridge. The Cambridge Research Conference is an annual event organised by Professor Christi Deaton to support the sharing of research projects and research training experiences/opportunities. The…
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Date: 17 May 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
Children’s board: We are listening event
Jon Hassler-Hurst, Lead Paediatric Research Nurse at The Ipswich Hospital took part in a Cambridge Clinical Research Facility (CRF) event on Saturday 1 October which focused on getting young people involved in the development of their social media strategy. Jon presented on how he and the network…
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Date: 8 May 2017
Category: CRF News
Author: Vivienne Pittas
NIHR Cambridge BRC Deputy Scientific Director is elected to Royal Society Fellowship
Krishna Chatterjee (Professor of Endocrinology), Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Director of our CRF and NIHR Senior Investigator, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society…
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