The BRC awards three novel cross theme projects
The BRC awards three novel cross theme projects to catalyse collaboration and support the development of its leadership pipeline.
The BRC is dedicated to supporting career development and increasing opportunities for new and emergent research leaders. The development of a cohort of BRC Emerging Leaders is a key part of these plans.
The cohort brings together future research leaders from across the BRC themes with the aim of driving delivery of the BRC vision of improving lives through world-class translational research in ageing and multiple long-term conditions.
The initiative will develop the leadership pipeline within individual themes and broaden leadership capacity across the BRC, including though Emerging Leaders acting as role models and mentors for BRC trainees and postdocs, To accelerate this work targeted investment will stimulate cross-theme working between disease areas, digital health and informatics and support the development of innovative approaches to patient and public involvement. Importantly the cohort will be visible champions for a positive research culture across the BRC and beyond.
Three new research projects have been awarded:
- Remote monitoring of disease and physical activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study. Dr Kenneth Baker, Dr Silvia Del Din, Dr Alison Yarnall and Dr Gary Reynolds
- Exploring conserved gene expression programmes across tissues in ageing. Dr Gary Reynolds, Dr Neil Rajan and Dr Richard Dodds
- Comparative analysis of microsatellite instability and somatic mismatch repair gene status in Lynch related skin and upper gastrointestinal cancers. Dr Neil Rajan and Dr Christopher Lamb
The projects will support the BRC vision to transform lives through world-leading research in ageing and multiple long-term conditions by producing preliminary data to support future funding applications and speed the progression to patient benefit. They will also be exemplars of cross BRC research theme working, building further synergy and collaboration across the centre.
To find out more about these projects follow the links above