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News Professor Adam Croft receives funding as part of £1MM project tackling autoimmune conditions Birmingham's Institute of Inflammation and Ageing academic Professor Adam Croft has secured funding as part of ten new autoimmunity research projects to tackle the root cause of life-changing autoimmune conditions.
News Drug could more effectively treat patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia, early stage research finds
08 June 2020 Birmingham designed test confirms COVID-19 as trigger for rare Kawasaki-like syndrome in children A test developed in Birmingham has offered evidence confirming COVID-19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, who have tested negative for the virus by the PCR test.
01 June 2020 Chernajovsky Foundation support two PhD scholarships to develop novel therapies Two research groups have been awarded funds over £285,000 to support PhD scholarships from the Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.
21 May 2020 'Cell pores' discovery gives hope to millions of brain and spinal cord injury patients Scientists at University of Birmingham have discovered a new treatment to dramatically reduce swelling after brain and spinal cord injuries, offering hope to 75 million victims worldwide each year.
07 April 2020 Blog: A doctor's view from the frontline - Patient care at the time of COVID and how routine health data can help Professor Liz Sapey, Hub Director for HDR-UK's PIONEER, writes a guest blog post on her experience as a frontline medical doctor working in acute medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
20 February 2020 Birmingham named one of just six new Life Sciences Opportunity Zones The Birmingham Health Partners ecosystem has been awarded Life Sciences Opportunity Zone status by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
19 February 2020 Three new fellowships in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing Three scientists from the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing have received funding from the Kennedy Trust, The Dunhill Medical Trust and the Medical Research Foundation to support and further their research.
12 December 2019 Meet the Hubs: PIONEER - The Health Data Research Hub for Acute Care Dr Elizabeth Sapey, Director of PIONEER and Reader in Acute and Respiratory Medicine in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, writes a guest blog for Health Data Research UK.
07 November 2019 Researchers find potential new target for treatment of inflammatory disease Researchers led by the University of Birmingham have found a potential new target to treat inflammatory disease. The research has been published in Cell Metabolism.
25 October 2019 Researchers at University of Birmingham awarded over £1 million for latest technology for immune regulation Researchers at the University of Birmingham awarded £1.15 million for latest equipment for immune regulation.
25 October 2019 University of Birmingham expert plays key role in new report on healthy ageing A University of Birmingham expert has played a pivotal part in the production of a new report aimed at highlighting physiology's role in meeting the UK Government's healthy ageing mission.
16 October 2019 Global trial is first clear evidence that a widely available drug reduces head injury deaths A low cost and widely available drug could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury patients by as much as 20% depending on the severity of injury, according to a study carried out with the University of Birmingham.
25 September 2019 Award winning researcher joins as Hale-Rudd Lecturer in Experimental Ophthalmology Dr Jose M Romero Hombrebueno has moved from Belfast to Birmingham to join the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing as a Hale-Rudd Lecturer in Experimental Ophthalmology.