Harnessing the body’s own protective pathways to treat chronic diseases The problem More than a billion people suffer from chronic diseases where inflammation and tissue degeneration significantly limit daily activities and reduce quality of life. For example, loss...
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Confidence for Translation (C4T) Awardees 2022
In 2022, Translation Mancheste run the first Translation Manchester Accelerator Awards (TMAA) call, bringing together funding from the Wellcome Translational Partnership Award (TPA) and the UKRI MRC Impact Accelerator Account (2022-25). This funding call included two...
Access to Expertise (A2E) Awardees 2022
In 2022, Translation Mancheste run the first Translation Manchester Accelerator Awards (TMAA) call, bringing together funding from the Wellcome Translational Partnership Award (TPA) and the UKRI MRC Impact Accelerator Account (2022-25).This funding call included two...
Facilitating access to patient tissues with A2E awards
Mark Travis, Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester, was recipient of an Access to Expertise (A2E) award in 2018 The 6 months Costs included 5% Study co-ordinator, 32% Research Nurse and 5% Consultant time to facilitate clinical sample collection “My...
Overcoming Translational Bottlenecks: Informatics Training Scheme 2019
The hurdle: 28% of Wellcome-funded researchers at the University identitied the lack of informatics support and expertise within their group as one of the major hurdles slowing the progression of their research along the translational pathway. Similarly, in our recent...
Co-designing digital solutions for young people at risk of self-harm made possible through A2E funding
Kathryn Abel, Professor of Psychological Medicine (UoM/MFT), was the recipient of an Access to Expertise (A2E) award in 2018 The 9-month costs included workshop tools, digital consultancy and stipend for workshop participants “Within the domain of preventive mental...
Examples of translational research projects that do not follow the D1-T4 sequential pathway
There is an assumption that translational research occurs in a linear and sequential way, progressing stage by stage from D1 to T4, however, this is not always the case. Translational research can start at any point of the translational pathway and can skip stages...
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