Investigators from the University of Cambridge and the UK Renal Registry have been awarded funding of £1.4 million for an ambitious and innovative trial of vitamin D in dialysis patients. Led by Dr Thomas Hiemstra from the University of Cambridge, SIMPLIFIED will enroll 4,200 dialysis patients over three years, randomised to cholecalciferol or standard care. […]
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MRC, GSK and five leading UK universities collaborate to crack difficult disease areas
Cambridge has been part of a successful £16 million bid to work with the MRC, GSK and four other UK universities in a unique open innovation research initiative aiming to improve scientists’ understanding of inflammatory diseases that present a serious burden to patients. The Experimental Medicine Initiative to Explore New Therapies (EMINENT) network will be […]
Astrazeneca and Cambridge announce new joint PhD and clinical research scholarship
AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarship sand eight clinical lectureships over the next five years spanning translational science, basic and clinical research. Two of the schemes are co-funded by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between Cambridge University Hospitals and […]
Cambridge to lead MRC/BHF funded trial for AIMHY consortium
Funded by the MRC (c£2.3m) and the British Heart Foundation (£1.1m). Consortium members: Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Glasgow and Manchester; UCL, Queen Mary, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, University of Florida. High blood pressure (hypertension) is extremely common within the general population in the UK and worldwide and is a major cause of […]
