Northern Care Alliance to lead £3.4m national study testing whether early treatment can save patients’ hearing
STEREO-VS, an eight-year study sponsored by Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust and delivered with The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, will test whether radiosurgery given at diagnosis can...
Manchester neurosurgeons take on Malaga Marathon for Glioblastoma research
The countdown is on! Manchester neurosurgeons Jane Halliday, Julian Evans and Daniel Holsgrove are set take on the Malaga Marathon on Sunday 8 November 🏃➡️ They are raising funds to support research led by Dr Thomas Kisby and colleagues from the Nanomedicine Lab. The...
Researchers awarded £600,000 to develop an AI tool for faster multiple sclerosis diagnosis and monitoring (AIMS-NHS)
More than 130,000 people in the UK live with multiple sclerosis (MS). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to their diagnosis and care, yet almost all NHS centres face long delays because there are too few specialist neuroradiologists to report scans quickly...
Scientists uncover ‘window of opportunity’ after brain tumour surgery
Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified a brief window after brain tumour surgery during which a treatment for glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer, can cross the brain’s protective barrier and reach the cancer cells most likely to trigger...
Dreaming: Beneath the Surface
Dr Yolanda Ohene, Wellcome Accelerator Award Research Fellow, talks about a recent event she organised to discuss health inequalities and underrepresentation in research for Black communities. On Friday 12 June, I invited 13 black researchers, artists and community...
Giving back through lived experience: Manchester student helps educate future clinical psychologists
A University of Manchester student who underwent epilepsy surgery at Salford Royal is helping shape the next generation of healthcare professionals by sharing her experience with trainee clinical psychologists. Leilah Applegarth, who is studying for a Postgraduate...
Manchester alumnus returns to build clinical partnerships for pioneering neurotechnology
When Daniel Ko arrived at The University of Manchester as an undergraduate neuroscience student in 2004, he could not have known that his degree would take him around the world and eventually bring him back to Manchester with an innovative neurotechnology company and...
New funding for NF2 research
Colleagues working across our brain tumour and inflammation themes have been awarded £700,000 from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and The Medical Research Council for their project on Understanding CD8+ T cell responses in NF2-Schwannomatosis-related vestibular...
Funding awarded to kick-start collaborative rare conditions research
The Manchester Rare Conditions Centre which aims to improve the lives of people living with rare conditions and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre recently held a joint workshop to facilitate closer collaboration between our research communities. Following...
New centre of excellence for Parkinson’s research
NCA is to be part of a new NIHR Translational Research Collaboration (TRC) in Parkinson’s disease (PD), bringing together national expertise and infrastructure. Our centre of excellence will be led by consultant neurologist Dr Christopher Kobylecki and aims to speed...
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