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News 2 April 2025 Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) NIHR BioResource

People from Black communities, with or without health conditions, are invited to take part in the Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) BioResource. This new research initiative, led by the National Institute for Health and Care Research…

News 24 March 2025 Rare Diseases Day 2025

On Friday 28 February, the team from the Rare Diseases Centre at QEHB celebrated Rare Diseases Day with an awareness stand in the atrium. The Centre, located in the Heritage Building, provides a one-stop service where…

News 13 March 2025 Research team recognised for outstanding contributions to a groundbreaking national clinical trial 

A research team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has been recognised for their outstanding achievement in becoming one of the top recruiting sites for the FLO-ELA (FLuid Optimisation in Emergency LAparotomy) trial.  The team has…

News 12 March 2025 Research Nurse scoops prestigious Rising Star of the Year award

Congratulations to Research Nurse, Pearl Fredric Cruz, who recently received the Rising Star of the Year Award at the British Indian Nurses Association (BINA) Awards. The prestigious award recognises Pearl’s dedication and significant contributions to advancing…

News 11 February 2025 Common antibiotic could treat inflammatory bowel disease, new study finds

An antibiotic used to treat infective diarrhoea could be an effective drug for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a new study has found. Results published in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis revealed that an…

News 22 January 2025 New recommendations to increase transparency and tackle potential bias in medical AI technologies

Patients will be better able to benefit from innovations in medical artificial intelligence (AI) if a new set of internationally agreed recommendations are followed. A new set of recommendations published in The Lancet Digital Health and…

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News 7 October 2024 Birmingham hospital first in Europe to enrol a patient in new investigational pancreatic cancer vaccine trial

Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) has enrolled the first patient in Europe into a new trial investigating a therapeutic mRNA-based “pancreatic cancer vaccine”. Known as autogene cevumeran or BNT122, the “vaccine” is an individualised neoantigen specific…

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News 17 June 2024 First patient tests personal cancer vaccine

A research team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has treated the first patient in England with a personalised vaccine for their bowel cancer. As part of the nationwide first, Elliot Pfebve from Walsall, received the…

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News 25 March 2024 Owkin and University Hospitals Birmingham collaborate to use AI diagnostics in a study that may diagnose and help treat colorectal…

Owkin and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) announced today a new five year research partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the screening and diagnosis of a range of diseases, starting with colorectal cancer. …

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