Addenbrooke's Hospital
Research and Development
The Rosie Hospital
The PONTE EU Open Day at CUH is to be held at the William Harvey Lecture Theatre on 31 January 2012
Public involvement in research group
Get involved in the design of future health and social care research at the launch of new group on 2 November 2011.
£110 million health research fund confirms elite biomedical status for CUH
Cambridge University Hospitals and the University of Cambridge have been awarded a record share of an £800 million government research fund, confirming the city’s status as one of the country’s elite Biomedical Research Centres.
Are you designing a study and do you need help with statistics?
The Centre for Applied Medical Statistics (CAMS) is a group of medical statisticians engaged in collaborative research and teaching.
For the public
Innovation and excellence in health and care
Patient and Public Involvement panel | Taking part in research | Join the Cambridge BioResource | Cambridge Brain Bank | Learning more about our research
Cambridge University Hospitals 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 : ppi@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.
> 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 9,000 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 website 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
> Strangeways Research Laboratory
> Hutchison/MRC Research Centre
> MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
> MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Contact the research team at Cambridge University Hospitals
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
Box 277,
Hills Road,
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
R&Denquiries
@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
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