Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration

MH-TRC COVID-19 and Mental Health Studies Register

Funded and led by the Mental Health TRC, the COVID-19 and Mental Health Studies Register aims to help prevent duplicate efforts, and help coordinate and facilitate the development of high-quality collaborative mental health research in the UK within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are researching mental health and COVID-19, please add your research study to the register. You can also search for listed projects here.

The NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) is a national network of centres of excellence in mental health translational and clinical research that facilitates collaboration with charities and industry partners.

What we can offer
Our expertise and strengths
Who we are
Our projects
Contact us

What we can offer

NIHR Mental Health TRC offers industry and charities:

Quicker and easier feedback to clinical research proposals
Partnership with service users affected by mental health problems across the country
Access to mental illness cohorts for experimental medicine studies
Accelerated translation of discoveries into better treatments.

Our expertise and strengths

The main focus areas of this collaboration include but are not limited to:

Mood disorders, particularly treatment-resistant depression: Led by Dr Michael Browning
Early psychosis: Led by Dr Paolo Fusar-Poli
Development of well-defined patient cohorts through the NIHR BioResource: Led by Professor Gerome Breen
Medical Informatics: Co-led by Professor Ann John and Professor John Ainsworth
Training and Capacity Development: Co-led by Dr Kate Saunders and Dr Shruti Garg

The NIHR Mental Health TRC brings together:

World-class mental health clinical research facilities across nine of the NIHR’s Biomedical Research Centres and Clinical Research Facilities
The NIHR Mental Health MedTech Co-operative
Five additional centres of excellence across England, Scotland, and Wales.

Who we are

The NIHR Mental Health TRC is co-led by Chair Professor John Geddes from the NIHR Oxford Health BRC, Chair Emeritus Professor Matthew Hotopf from the NIHR Maudsley BRC, and Deputy Chair Professor Rachel Upthegrove from the University of Birmingham.

By working collaboratively, we can accelerate this innovation to help those with mental illness.”

Read the blog from Professor Matthew Hotopf, Chair of the NIHR Mental Health TRC

To find out more about the NIHR Mental Health TRC and how your company or organisation can partner with us, E-mail: nocri@nihr.ac.uk

List of Mental Health TRC partner organisations

NIHR Centres

Institution	Clinical academic leads
NIHR Maudsley BRC and associated NIHR CRF at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust	Professor Matthew Hotopf (Emeritus Chair of the Mental Health-TRC)
NIHR Oxford Health BRC and associated NIHR CRF at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust	Professor John Geddes (Chair of the Mental Health-TRC)
Nottingham BRC and NIHR MindTech Co-operative	Professor Chris Hollis
NIHR Bristol BRC	Dr Jonathan Evans
NIHR Cambridge BRC and associated NIHR CRF at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Professor Ed Bullmore
NIHR UCLH BRC	Professor Anthony David
NIHR Imperial BRC	Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes
NIHR Exeter CRF	Professor Clive Ballard
NIHR Manchester CRF in association with Greater Manchester Mental health NHS Foundation Trust	Professor Bill Deakin

Other Centres

Institution	Clinical Academic leads
Cardiff University, National Centre for Mental Health	Professor James Walters
NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network	Professor Andrew Gumley
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust	Professor David Baldwin
Newcastle University	Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams
University of Birmingham	Professor Rachel Upthegrove (Deputy Chair of the Mental Health-TRC)

Our projects

The MH TRC boasts a wealth of expertise in a wide variety of areas within mental health. The TRC and its members are actively involved in different projects aiming to improve research into mental health. Some examples include:

Children and Young People’s Mental Health Project - experts from across the TRC to identify research priorities and develop research proposals in this important area.
Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) Study - As part of its workstream “Development of well-defined patient cohorts through the NIHR Bioresource”, the TRC has been prompting the use of this trial-ready cohort among both companies and mental health researchers. Read this update on recruitment to the study.
PHOSP-COVID (Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study) - The TRC manages the Brain Working Group of this study.

Contact us

To find out more about the NIHR Mental Health TRC and how your company or organisation can partner with us, E-mail: nocri@nihr.ac.uk

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