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03 April 2020
The country's five most senior doctors urge NHS Trusts to enrol patients into nationally prioritised COVID-19 trials.
03 April 2020
The Be Part of Research website, has new information and links about COVID-19 available for patients and the public about the research underway.
02 April 2020
Professor Brian Ferguson has been appointed as the new NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme Director.
01 April 2020
The NIHR has launched a new Centre for Engagement and Dissemination that brings together its activities in patient and public involvement, engagement and participation with its strengths in research dissemination.
30 March 2020
A breathing aid that can help COVID-19 patients with serious lung infections to breathe more easily without the need to use invasive ventilators has been developed by a collaboration of engineers, industry and clinicians.
30 March 2020
The NIHR has published its latest Annual Report highlighting its achievements in 2018/19.
24 March 2020
The NIHR has partnered with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) to fund small grants to early career global health researchers worldwide.
24 March 2020
An exciting partnership between the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and biopharmaceutical company Pfizer UK is aiming to support health and care research leaders of the future.
23 March 2020
The NIHR and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have awarded £10.5 million of funding to six new research projects on developing and testing vaccines and therapies for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
19 March 2020
A team of scientists at the University of Southampton have announced a trial of an inhaled drug that may help people reduce the symptoms of COVID-19.
16 March 2020
Statement on the impact of COVID-19 on NIHR funded and supported research and advice to the NIHR community helping to facilitate this research.
16 March 2020
Researchers supported by NIHR have announced the commercial launch of the world's first licensed artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes.
13 March 2020
The risk of death and disability after a stroke fell significantly between 2000 and 2015 and an estimated 6,300 more patients annually are surviving their stroke, according to research supported by the NIHR.
11 March 2020
The UK Government has today committed an extra £12million to the NIHR in 2020/21 for research into preventable diseases.
04 March 2020
An international collaboration led by NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) in Leicester and Nottingham has discovered three genes that put some people at higher risk of an incurable lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
02 March 2020
A new package of interactive learning resources is now available to support research delivery professionals in promoting research to colleagues across the NHS.
02 March 2020
An updated mobile app that calculates a women’s risk of preterm birth is reliable at identifying the women who need extra monitoring or special treatment, according to research supported by the NIHR.
28 February 2020
A nine-year observational study has linked roll out of Universal Credit across England, Wales, and Scotland with an increase in mental health problems among unemployed recipients.
28 February 2020
The size of glass used to serve wine in restaurants can influence the amount of wine people drink, suggests new research funded by NIHR and carried out at the University of Cambridge.
28 February 2020
An NIHR funded study has launched aiming to recruit at least 10,000 people in England who have experienced an eating disorder to a pioneering new study that aims to unlock the secrets of eating disorders.
27 February 2020
Supported by the NIHR, researchers from the University of Manchester have announced that a new drug has been shown to reduce symptoms of chronic cough with minimal side effects.
27 February 2020
This week Join Dementia Research celebrates its fifth birthday. Help us mark the occasion by sending a digital greeting card to someone you know who might be interested in research.
25 February 2020
Leading UK soft drinks companies continued to experience positive growth in their share prices during the implementation of the UK Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), despite widespread industry fears the tax would harm their businesses, researchers funded by NIHR have found.
25 February 2020
Using moisturisers on newborn babies does not prevent eczema as previously thought, according to a major new study funded by the NIHR’s HTA programme.
17 February 2020
The NIHR has announced the appointment of 45 NIHR Senior Investigators in the 2020 round of awards.