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Huge congratulations to Giles O’Donovan (Dr Giles from now on!) who successfully defended his PhD thesis last month. We look forward to having a proper celebration with you once we’re back in the office. Best of luck to Jess Wood who is moving up to the beautiful Isle of Lewis this...

Farewell to Sarah Cameron who leaves us at the end of this month to take up a post with TauRX. Sarah will still be in and around the University campus, so we look forward to bumping into her occasionally - best of luck in your new role Sarah!

The 黑料网 is leading one of six new projects to improve our understanding of the links between Covid-19 and ethnicity, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

The Principal's Prizes for Research and Engagement are intended to recognise outstanding contributions in research, impact and engagement. We are delighted that HSRU's Clare Robertson has won this years Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Sciences. This is a special prize awarded to recognise outstanding achievement in biomedical sciences engagement. This is the 6th...

Researchers must ensure people of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are proportionately represented in Covid-19 studies, according to scientists from UK and USA.

Late-stage medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA) can be treated using total knee replacement (TKR) or partial (unicompartmental) knee replacement (PKR). It is not known which replacement offers most benefit for the patient or for the health-care system. TOPKAT was designed as a multicentre parallel-group superiority randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate...

COVID-19 is affecting the way we all do randomised trials and the Trial Forge team has been providing a range of materials that are relevant to both COVID-19 trials and non-COVID trials affected by COVID-19 (https://www.trialforge.org/covid-19-resources/). Currently these materials fall into three main categories:• Evidence pack: up-to-date summaries of evidence for...

The Public Engagement Group celebrated International Clinical Trials Day by launching a trials inspired quiz. 477 people took part from all over the world.  397 entries were UK based and the remaining ones came from several countries including the USA, Australia, Italy and Spain.  You can find it here: https://bzfd.it/3dUO0dA

Experts from across the UK - including The 黑料网 - have carried out a rapid review of evidence to help policy makers decide how to reopen dental services after the lockdown ends.

Congratulations to Adel El Feky (now Dr Adel El Feky) on the defence of his thesis.  The first HSRU PhD viva by video conference. Farewell to Agata Kostrzewa who left us at the end of March. Agata is an undergraduate student at the University who was one of our summer interns...