Oxford scientists secure £122million in research grants
Oxford researchers have secured £122million of government research funding.
The finance will enhance understanding of mental health, depression treatments, mental health in children and young people, while psychological treatments and brain technologies can now also be advanced due to the financial injection.
The monies, which will be invested over the next five years, will go to NIHR Oxford BRC, a University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals trust partnership will receive £86.6m, while the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre has received a £35.4 million grant.
The award is part of a package of funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) for Biomedical Research Centres (BRC).
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Professor John Geddes, Director of the NIHR Oxford Health BRC and Director of the Translational Research Collaboration in Mental Health (TRC-MH), said: “The successful BRC application was a result of a huge amount of work involving patients and public, researchers and clinicians across Oxford and our partners across the country.
“It builds on the success of the current centre which has, over the past five years, delivered new psychological and digital treatments, advances in drug discovery and new ways of integrating research and clinical care.
“The new award now provides us with a wonderful opportunity to transform care for mental and brain health and wellbeing across the whole country and, actually, the world. We can now translate the best research from UK biomedical science, data science and engineering, social science and arts and the humanities for the benefit of clinical care and population health.
“We are enormously grateful to the NIHR and the International Panel for both understanding and generously supporting our ambitious plans and vision. We are now looking forward to co-designing with patients and the public powerful new approaches that can be tested, refined and then implemented across the NHS and beyond.”
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