NIHR BioResource
Research - Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
NIHR BioResource Employees
NIHR BioResource Details
The NIHR BioResource for Translational Research in Common and Rare Diseases (NIHR BioResource) is at the heart of efforts to improve healthcare and the long-term prevention and treatment of disease. The NIHR BioResource is committed to bringing together researchers and willing volunteers to contribute to leading research that will benefit everyone. We have built a national resource that supports public participation in research. We started in Cambridge before moving nationally, developing to eight local centres between 2012 and 2017, before expanding to 13 centres during 2017.Our work is supported by an infrastructure that enables our participants to contribute to further research, catalysing medical research and trials.We bring people together and lead research to help scientific discoveries to move more quickly from the lab to the patient. The children and adults who take part in NIHR BioResource are vital to our role in medical research. They provide a sample and let us access their health records to help us understand disease. They come from around the country and might be healthy volunteers or patients. They are willing to take part in research.We are funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) – the nation's largest funder of health and social care research – which is funded largely by the Department for Health and Social Care. For more information on the NIHR, please visit www.nihr.ac.uk
