Translational Research Partnerships
NIHR Translational Research Partnerships bring together world-class investigators in the UK’s leading academic and NHS centres to support collaboration with the life sciences industry in early and exploratory development of new drugs and other interventions.
Research centres that make up the Partnerships have been selected to work together based on their proven ability to deliver in experimental medicine and translational research. As members of a Partnership, each centre has committed to work with industry through a consistent point of contact provided by the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI).
There are currently two NIHR Translational Research Partnerships focusing on one of the following areas:
Translational Research Partnerships offer an internationally unique approach to support open innovation and collaboration with the life sciences industries. Collectively they bring together:
- Recognised experience in current exploratory development protocols, expertise in pathophysiology and disease mechanisms, expertise in modelling.
- Enabling technologies and infrastructure, including imaging, biobanks, accredited laboratory facilities.
- Cohorts of well-characterised patients available for clinical development studies.
To work with either of the Partnerships please contact the NOCRI office: nocri@nihr.ac.uk or +44 (0) 207 210 6217.
Further Partnerships will be developed and NOCRI is working with a range of stakeholders to assess which disease and theraputic areas would benefit from this approach. NIHR Biomedical Research Centres and Units provide the bedrock of the first two NIHR Partnerships and will form the basis of these new Partnerships in the future.
More information on how the NIHR supports the biopharmaceutical and medical technology sectors is available through NOCRI.