Senior Investigator awards for BRC members
We are pleased to share the news that two BRC members, Professor Hermant Pandit and Professor Gordon Cook have been appointed as prestigious NIHR Senior Investigators. Professor Cook who co-leads for our Haematology Theme received the award in recognition of his work on multiple myeloma (MM). “I am delighted to…
Leeds BRC BioArt collaboration
BRC members has collaborated with an internationally renowned award-winning artist to create a unique exhibition looking at the complex ecosystems of microbes. Professor of Microbiology at University of Leeds, Jane Freeman, and BioArt pioneer Anna Dumitriu worked together on the exhibition looking at microbes and bacteria via sculptures, altered vintage…
Ask the Researcher: Improving outcomes for vasculitis patients
Professor Ann Morgan will be joining us to introduce the condition of Vasculitis – a group of conditions that cause inflammation of the blood vessels. This includes conditions such as Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Rheumatoid Vasculitis. Ann will also provide an overview of her research to improve…
Leeds BRC Appoints Academic Capacity Development Leadership
Dr Md Yuzaiful The NIHR Leeds BRC is thrilled to announce the 12-month appointment of Dr Md Yuzaiful (Yuz) Md Yusof, Senior Research Fellow and LTHT Locum Consultant Rheumatologist (from our Musculoskeletal Theme) as an emerging lead for ACD. Yuz brings lived experience of the challenges of the academic/research career…
Pump-Priming funding call now open
The NIHR Leeds BRC wishes to help support new collaborative research either within the current BRC partnership or with new external partners to facilitate new early translational and experimental medicine clinical research which align with our strategic aims. We are inviting researchers and collaborators to apply for funding of up…
SurgTech 2024: Innovation Across the Surgical Pathway
21st – 22nd March 2024 , 08:30am – 4:30pmLeeds Marriott Hotel4 Trevelyan Square, Boar Lane,Leeds LS1 6ET Featuring: NIHR Surgical Co-operative, Leeds NIHR BRC Surgery, Centre for HealthTech Innovation, LTHT Innovation PopUp, SIDD Clinical Trials Network with like-minded individuals Updates from across our networks Establish new collaborations Be at the…
Prof Dennis McGonagle to deliver annual Institute of Medicine Stearne Lecture
Our colleague Professor Dennis McGonagle, Deputy Director at the NIHR-funded Academic Unit for Musculoskeletal Diseases and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, recently delivered the esteemed Stearne Lecture in Dublin, Ireland. The lecture is named after Professor John Stearne who was the first president of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland….
BRC researcher wins funding award for Systemic Sclerosis project
We are very pleased our colleague Dr Rebecca Ross has been awarded a Research Ignition Award by the Kennedy Trust. This is in recognition for her and her team’s work exploring the relationship between circulating epithelial cells (CECs) and autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of systemic fibrosis. Dr. Ross and her…
New Years Honours for BRC team members
Exciting news to begin the new year that BRC clinical partners have had their important work recognised in the New Years Honours List. Prof Paul Emery has been awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to Rheumatology. Paul was previously awarded an OBE in 2018 and is the former director of…
Medical Research Council funds VEXAS syndrome research
A research team led by one of our BRC colleagues has received funding worth £1 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to support their ground-breaking work. Our colleague Dr Sinisa Savic, Consultant Immunologist and Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds is leading the team’s…
Successes shared at Northern BRCs Early Researchers Conference
We recently had a great day welcoming colleagues to our Northern BRC Early Researchers Conference.It is very important to our approach to collaborate with our valued colleagues from across the Northern BRC community network, to meet with the medical researchers of tomorrow, and collectively share our exciting work. We were…
Professorship for Leeds BRC Doctor
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Sinisa Savic, Consultant Immunologist, who has received the accolade of a full Professorship with the University of Leeds. The award recognises Sinisa’s sustained delivery of high-quality research attracting significant external funding, as well as his involvements in delivery of higher degree programmes with the University….
Leeds BRC Members Published in The Lancet
We are delighted to share that our colleagues have had their work concerning rheumatoid arthritis published in the prestigious journal The Lancet. In this invited Seminar, our colleagues Professor Paul Emery and Dr Andrea Di Matteo, with Professor Joan Bathon, draw from the BRC’s musculoskeletal research in the field to deliver an up…
Leeds Spondyloarthritis Research Awareness Afternoon 2023
Date/time: 15th November 2023, 12.30-15.00 Location: Leeds NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, 1st Floor, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, LS7 4SA What is the Leeds Spondyloarthritis Research Awareness Afternoon? Leeds Team SpA are holding a research afternoon for all patients diagnosed with axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis patients, and their families, who live in/around Leeds….
Welcome to the COPPACA Community Project
At the heart of Leeds City Centre, Dermatology and Rheumatology researchers from the Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, hosted a research drop-in centre for one week between 5th – 10th December 2022. Our doors were open from morning until evening, welcoming individuals from all walks of…