The NIHR Translational Research Collaboration in inflammatory respiratory disease (TRC) brings together internationally recognised investigators in the UK's leading centres of excellence to carry out early phase research with industry.
This NIHR Translational Research Collaboration carries out outstanding translational research in inflammatory respiratory disease.
Together with industry partners, the TRC focuses on early phase clinical research in patients to identify mechanisms of pathophysiology of disease, or to demonstrate proof of concept or evidence of the validity of new discoveries or treatments.
The TRC undertake commercial and non-commercial studies with industry partners, and engages with all sectors of the life sciences industry, including Clinical Research Organisations (CROs).
To be suitable for TRC support, a project is expected to:
The TRC experts will help you to shape your protocol, providing advice on study design. If you already have a fully-developed protocol and are only looking for recruitment sites the NIHR Clinical Research Network will be able to help you. Find out more about this service in the Support my study section of this website.
The TRC can offer scientific advice when there is a clear intent to deliver the study through the TRC, they are not designed to act as stand-alone advisory boards.
The TRC provide easy access to a network of academic centres and experts embedded in UK universities and NHS hospitals who are available to work collaboratively on early phase clinical studies.
The TRC centres operate to common business processes. This makes it quicker and easier for industry to work with the expert investigators within the NHS.
The TRC provide operational support, including a standard pre-approved non-disclosure agreement, contractual templates and a close working relationship with the NIHR Clinical Research Network for identification of sites.
The TRC specialties include:
The TRC regularly reviews areas of unmet need to determine emerging topics of focus for the group.
A new drug which could offer relief to millions of people affected by chronic cough is now being tested by the NIHR Translational Research Partnership as part of a twelve week clinical trial. The drug, called AF-219, is being developed by US based biotech company, Afferent Pharmaceuticals. It works by selectively blocking the P2X3 receptors stopping the mechanism by which certain airway nerves become hyper-sensitized.
The NIHR TRP, with support from global pharmaceutical company Novartis, is running a study into whether the antibody treatment omalizumab can be better targetted in people with severe asthma.
The study is enabling researchers to identify which biomarkers are changed by the treatment. This should make it possible to quickly identify those patients who will get the most benefit from omalizumab treatment, giving them relief from severe symptoms.
Contact us:
This collaboration is managed by the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure.
nocri@nihr.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 3794 7380
Further information:
Download the NIHR Inflammatory Respiratory Disease Translational Research Collaboration flyer.
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