Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration
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.
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.
The main focus areas of this collaboration include but are not limited to:
- Mood disorders, particularly treatment-resistant depression
- Early psychosis
- Development of well-defined patient cohorts through the NIHR BioResource.
The NIHR Mental Health TRC members 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.
The NIHR Mental Health TRC is led by chair Professor Matthew Hotopf from the NIHR Maudsley BRC and deputy chair Professor John Geddes from the NIHR Oxford Health BRC.
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
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Academic leads |
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NIHR Maudsley BRC and associated NIHR CRF at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
(Chair of the Mental Health-TRC) |
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NIHR Oxford Health BRC and associated NIHR CRF at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust |
(Deputy-Chair of the Mental Health-TRC) |
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NIHR Cambridge BRC and associated NIHR CRF at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
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NIHR Manchester CRF in association with Greater Manchester Mental health NHS Foundation Trust |
Other Centres
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Institution |
Academic leads |
