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Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine has a very active research community with more than 450 members of academic staff. Through our links across the University, our partnership with University Hospital Southampton and with industry we have been able to push the boundaries of medical research and address key healthcare issues.

Our NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows and Clinical Lecturers predominantly undertake research time at Southampton General Hospital Aldermoor Health Centre (for Primary Care), and College Keep (for Psychiatry). Southampton General Hospital houses a large complex of clinical and laboratory space and other separately housed research facilities including:

• NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (SBRC) . Recently awarded £25m to support research under five themes (Nutrition, Lifestyle and Metabolism; Respiratory and Allergy; Data, Health and Society; Microbiology, Immunology and Infection; Perioperative and Critical Care), the SBRC takes new discoveries, treatments and technologies into the clinic, using unique tools, facilities and world-changing expertise.
• NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility (CRF) . Embedded at the heart of Southampton General Hospital, our comprehensive NIHR CRF is where the latest developments first enter the clinic, both from our own laboratories and from leading companies. The Centre was awarded £10.5 million in 2022 to expand the delivery of our ground-breaking studies.
• Centre for Cancer Immunology (CCI) . Opened in 2018 the £25 million CCI is the UK’s first dedicated centre for cancer immunology research working with scientists, mathematicians, data experts and engineers from across UoS.
  The CCI hosts the Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, an NIHR funded CTU with expertise in multi-centre interventional clinical trials. A UKCRC registered CTU with expertise in the design, conduct and analysis of multi-centre interventional clinical trials, the Centre works in partnership with investigators to deliver high quality trials that will directly influence routine clinical practice.
• The Wessex Investigational Sciences Hub laboratory (WISH Lab) provides a bespoke laboratory to support translational research requiring quality assurance to regulatory standards.
• Our Primary Care Research Centre (PCRC) is a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research conducting world-leading community based clinical research, informed by patient and public involvement (PPI), working with health professionals and policy makers and developing research students, to strengthen primary care practice and improve patient outcomes.
• MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre is a world-leading centre in musculoskeletal epidemiology with state-of-the-art instruments for assessing musculoskeletal health. Collaborations enable integration of genetic, epigenetic and blood biomarker analysis with clinical data for both paediatric and late-life studies.
• NIHR Applied Research Centre for Wessex conducts applied health research with partners and others in the health and care sector, alongside patients and members of the public.
• The University fosters interdisciplinary research through the Institute for Life Sciences which facilitates research collaborations between medicine and other disciplines across the University.

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