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.Uni of Birmingham has partnered with NHS England to produce a diagnostic code tailored to people in the early phases of type 1 diabetes - allowing researchers to identify patients who could benefit from novel therapies & recruit them to immunotherapy trials
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🩸 A single blood test could reveal whether people with atrial fibrillation - a common heart arrhythmia - are at risk of a dangerous cardiovascular event in the next five years >
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Fantastic news for @bhpcomms ecosystem, which will attract further investment, generate high-skilled jobs & enable transformative healthcare discoveries to improve patients' lives. We look forward to working with the Midlands-Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre MW-ATTC! 👇

New investment in advanced therapies | The Midlands-Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre (MW-ATTC), jointly led by Uni of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham, is part of a £17.9m network renewal funded by NIHR Research and overseen by Innovate UK and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult >
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Patients with symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease often face a long wait for diagnosis - but a new testing protocol could speed up the process and reduce the need for colonoscopies, finds NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre >
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🍭 An outstanding example of the multidisciplinary diagnostics expertise found across the Uni of Birmingham and Birmingham Health Partners ecosystem which our residents will have unrivalled access to. This novel approach could spare many patients the pain of biopsies 👇

A pioneering project - to develop a 'lollipop' that can diagnose mouth cancer - has received £350k funding from Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK & Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 🍭

RGupta group at Uni of Birmingham will use smart hydrogels to develop what could be an alternative to painful biopsies: birminghamhealthpartners.co.uk/birmingham-sci…

🤰 Academy of Medical Sciences, BHP and Concept Foundation have come together to call for cross-sector collaboration and greater investment into developing new therapies for pregnancy-specific conditions - an area of serious unmet clinical need >
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🏅 A major children’s cancer clinical trial - supported by PHTA’s Industry Trials Hub - has been nominated for a Cancer Research Horizons Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award 2024! The ceremony takes place tomorrow - good luck to the @crctu team & fellow nominees >
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🩻 Revolutionising the diagnosis and management of cartilage tumours - The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital's musculoskeletal radiology team launches new web platform to assist clinicians in assessing, diagnosing and monitoring these tumours >
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🇺🇸 Birmingham experts have been awarded a 7 yr contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to undertake a major research study

🧠 mTBI Predict aims to transform the way concussion is identified, leading to improved treatment and long-term management

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Great to have Andy Street at Birmingham Health Innovation Campus today for a progress update and to discuss the impact PHTA and BHIC will have on the life sciences sector and our region…

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🔬 New research, funded by Cancer Research UK and led by Uni of Birmingham, has set out to attempt to eradicate an incurable bone marrow cancer

🩸 Myeloma, a cancer that develops from plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) is typically diagnosed very late

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🧠 Revolutionary treatment developed in Brum to tackle 'tougher' killer cancers
🔬 Developed by our translational lead Dr Chris McConville, ChemoSeed is an implantable treatment which gets up to 99% of the drug where it needs to be- direct to the tumour: birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/re…

🫀 Researchers from Uni of Birmingham & University Hospitals Birmingham are working with community groups and industry to help boost screening and diagnosis of Fabry disease, a rare genetic condition, in under-represented groups across the city > birminghamhealthpartners.co.uk/improving-scre… UoB Cardiovascular UHB Research Amicus Therapeutics