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Events CoCreation and the Three Co’s Framework webinar

On Monday 17 March, Coventry University will be hosting a webinar called CoCreation and the Three Co’s Framework, designed for undergraduate students of healthcare, social care and public health professions in the West Midlands. The webinar…

Events Introduction to PPI workshop

This interactive two-hour online workshop will explore the core principles of best practice in patient and public involvement. It is designed for NHS staff, particularly those in research, as well as members of the public interested…

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Events New webinar series – Your health, our research: short talks, big impact

The NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), hosted by UHB, are launching a new monthly webinar series called ‘Your health, our research: short talks, big impact’ Each session will dive into groundbreaking research on everyday health…

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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…

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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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Events Research for Greener Surgery Conference 2024

The University of Birmingham is hosting the Research for Greener Surgery Conference 2024 on Tuesday 17 December 2024 on the campus.   It will include sessions on sustainable anaesthesia, sustainability in a global health context, reusable…

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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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