National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

Funded by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, the National Institute for Health Research invests over £1.2 billion annually to fund translational, clinical and applied health research spanning the whole innovation pathway. Through its people, programmes, centres of excellence and systems, spanning across the UK’s health system and leading universities, the NIHR is the most integrated health research system in the world, designed to transform scientific breakthroughs into life-saving treatments and technologies.

As a leading destination for clinical research, the NIHR can support life science companies to generate the required clinical and economic evidence to progress the development of their new therapeutics, MedTech, diagnostics and digital products towards the market. 

About us

Our dedicated, research-ready workforce of 10,000+ personnel is embedded throughout the NHS across England. All our NHS sites are connected through our national network. This enables national oversight of all clinical research activity and local targeting of support through our regional teams.

NIHR help you deliver your study in the NHS. From finding sites to monitoring performance, we offer a range of free support to help get your study up and running and to keep it on track. We do this by working in partnership with the NHS to deliver high quality clinical research. 

Highlights

We can work with you at any stage of your clinical development pipeline by supporting you to - 

• Gain access to expertise: introducing you to leading academic and clinical researchers across the UK's Health System and universities; with expertise across a very broad range of disease and technology areas.
• Setup collaborations with UK researchers around experimental medicine / translational research; either evaluating new therapies or technologies in our health system or to gain deeper insights into disease mechanisms.
• Setup and manage both commercial contract and collaborative clinical research across our health system. We offer early feasibility, site and investigator identification, setup and trial performance management. 
• Gain access to other research provisions; including data (research and health), access to patients, access to clinical samples or access to facilities/research techniques.
• Access a variety of funding programmes to help finance your research.
• We can also support companies to gain access to the wider UK research and health system; including governmental departments, regulators and regional health-tech clusters.
  
• We also work in partnership with the NHS to ensure our research workforce has the knowledge and skills required to deliver the next generation of complex and innovative clinical trials.
• Access and expansive array of clinical and health data through NIHR or one of our UK partners to develop your products, recruit patient groups and support your development pathway.
  

Website | https://www.nihr.ac.uk/partners-and-industry/industry/

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