For the public

Patient and Public Involvement panel | Taking part in research | Join the Cambridge BioResource | Cambridge Brain Bank | Learning more about our research

 

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is dedicated to making biomedical research both relevant and accessible to the general public, to patients and their carers.

 

There are a number of ways in which you can get involved.

 

 

Join our Patient and Public Involvement panel

 

Help investigators to design better research projects by giving them a lay person's input at different stages, from proving opinions on their protocols to helping them to design patient information leaflets that are clear and helpful.

 

Contact : joanne.heritage@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

 

 

 

Taking part in research

 

Participating in research as a volunteer is a way of helping companies develop new drugs or to establish new knowledge of diseases.

 

The following organisations offer the opportunity to participate in research as a volunteer.

 

> GSK Clinical Trials

> MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit - CBU Volunteer Panel

 

If you have a particular illness or ailment, and you would like to find out about research in that area, you should discuss this with your treating clinician or GP who will be able to advise on current research taking place.

 

 

 

Join the Cambridge BioResource

 

Help the fight against conditions such as heart disease and diabetes by
joining a pioneering research project.

The Cambridge BioResource, based at the Addenbrooke's Hospital site,
allows researchers to study normal characteristics that might be affected by gene types that can predispose people to conditions such as type 1 diabetes, but do so in healthy volunteers unaffected by the condition.

 

The last five years has seen the CBR grow into an invaluable resource. Through collaboration with the National Health Service Blood and Transplant Center (NHSBT), CBR now has over 5,000 members on its volunteer panel.

 

The CBR benefits not only researchers but also provides members of the public with an opportunity to get involved in local research projects.

 

To find out more please contact bioresource@cimr.cam.ac.uk or visit
> Cambridge BioResource

 

 

 

Cambridge Brain Bank

 

The Cambridge Brain Bank was established to enable brain tissue to be used after death for research into disorders of the nervous system such as Dementia (Alzheimers, Fronto-temporal), Motor Neurone disease, Huntington’s disease, Muscular Sclerosis and other conditions affecting the brain. Normal (control) brains from people without neurological conditions are also valuable to help find the possible causes of neurological disease.

 

If you wish to donate your brain, please contact:

 

Jenny Wilson

Senior Research Nurse for Cambridge Brain Bank

brbank@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
Tel: 01223 217 336

 

 

 

Learning more about our research

 

To find out more about research on the Campus in detail you can visit our Biomedical Research Centre pages or see the websites of our Campus neighbours:

 

> University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

> Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

> Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute

> Institute of Metabolic Science

> Institute of Public Health

> Strangeways Research Laboratory

 

> Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

> MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

> MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit

> MRC Cancer Cell Unit

> MRC Epidemiology Unit

> MRC Biostatistics Unit

> Cambridge BioResource

 

 

 

 

 

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