Our University of Exeter 2030 Vision: Greener, Fairer, Healthier.
We undertake excellent, innovative research of the highest standards of integrity and quality, purposed to address the most pressing health conditions across our region and worldwide.
We aim to deliver outstanding education and prepare future and contemporary generations of national and international students and learners with the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to lead in healthcare and fuel scientific discovery.
We continue to strengthen our partnership working with industry and the commercial sector, as well as with the NHS, charities and other communities to enhance our impact regionally, nationally and internationally.
Selling points in life sciences:
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre – We help academics and patient-facing experts like doctors, and other health professionals bring their research to labs, ensuring that scientific discoveries find their way to or are translated to the bedside or clinic. By working across five core themes – clinical mycology, diabetes, neurodegeneration, genetics and genomics, and rehabilitation – we are helping to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient care.
NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) – One of 14 new HRCs across the country working with businesses to support the development of medical devices, diagnostics and digital technologies aiming to accelerate the regulatory approvals process and smoothing the adoption pathway into the NHS and other healthcare institutions. There are four core themes: diagnostics and biomarkers; data-led research, AI and digital innovation; rehabilitation and frailty; and sustainable innovation.
Exeter Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) – a leading academic clinical trials unit, registered with the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Clinical Trials Unit Network (Registration Number 65). Exeter CTU collaborates with ambitious researchers and clinicians on the design and delivery of high-quality and efficient multi-centre clinical trials and other well-designed studies, addressing important health questions to improve clinical and healthcare practice.
NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility (CRF) – The NIHR Exeter CRF supports and conducts clinical research studies and is based in a purpose-built unit within the Research Innovation Learning & Development (RILD) Building at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It has highly trained ‘research dedicated’ nurses, scientists, doctors and support staff. Our outstanding research facilities include bespoke wards and consulting rooms, sample handling laboratories and specialist equipment for investigating exercise, physiology and metabolism.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC) – PenARC involves a partnership of local providers of NHS services, local providers of care services, NHS commissioners, local authorities, the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth and charities across Somerset, Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly). The collaboration supports applied health and care research that responds to, and meets, the needs of local populations and local health and care systems.
NIHR School for Primary Care Research – a partnership between the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Keele, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, Southampton and University College London.
The Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) – an established centre of excellence for primary care research and education. The work of APEx informs and responds to international, national and local priorities. APEx brings together primary care researchers, healthcare professionals and educators, and the infrastructure to interact with partners in the NHS, wider health and social care system, voluntary sector and industry.
NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR) – The University of Exeter is one of nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research.
Exeter’s goal is to produce meaningful evidence for sustainable and equitable individual and community health and wellbeing. We work hand-in-hand with our local authority and third sector partners to translate findings into effective policy. By working closely with public partners, we ensure our research projects and programmes of work address issues that are relevant and important to the communities we serve.
Dementia Network Plus – a strategic investment by ESRC, NIHR and Alzheimer’s Society, SPIINNET is one of only four Dementia Network Plus in the country. It aims to reduce dementia risk and improve people’s experience of living with dementia by supporting new projects and engaging with communities, with hubs in Wales, Scotland and England.
NIHR Neurodegeneration and Dementia Policy Research Unit (PRU) – will seek to inform policy in the areas of dementia and neurodegeneration by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from collaborating institutions – including University of Bradford, Newcastle University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of New South Wales – to create a critical mass of leading experts to ensure that policy is based on the latest evidence.
Leadership of Functional Genomics initiative – The Medical Research Council (MRC), in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has awarded £28.5million to establish the Human Functional Genomics Initiative, a programme that aims to advance our understanding of how genomic variation influences human physiology and how it changes over time and in disease, which is being led by Professor Jonathan Mill from the University of Exeter Medical School.
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