The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has awarded Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neurologist Dr Paul Bentley and his team of researchers £1.1m to develop a multiplayer video game to improve rehabilitation outcomes for patients. The award will enable the team to build a web-based version of Balloon Buddies, a social video game that […]

Innovative collaborative study established first in vitro model to study protein homeostasis (proteostasis) and effects of its disruption on the integrity of the surrounding tissue, with direct applications in biological, bioengineering and drug research. Researchers from Imperial College London and King’s College London used human mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (hMSC) to establish a reliable in vitro […]

The growing workload crisis in NHS primary care could be helped by a fleet of community health workers, a study led by Dr Matthew Harris and funded by the NIHR Imperial BRC has shown. Published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the modelling study provides a compelling case for pilot studies to […]

Applications are currently open for a number of training opportunities aimed at individuals wishing to develop their clinical research careers. Imperial Health Charity Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowships The NIHR Imperial BRC is proud to support the Imperial Health Charity Fellowship scheme aimed at enabling Medics and Healthcare Professionals outside of Medicine (e.g. Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals, […]

In preparation for the launch of a UK multi-centre clinical trial for the treatment of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplantation, our BRC researchers wanted to organise a patient and public involvement and engagement workshop (PPI/E). The aims of this workshop were to disseminate knowledge of our research and to lay the foundations for a more extensive […]