Skip to main content
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Search for something
Search...

Research

Our primary aims are to make fundamental scientific discoveries and apply these to improve health and health care.

Study
Research
About

A powerful and measurable impact

We encourage collaborative working between scientists and clinicians across disciplines and specialities.

We pursue interdisciplinary research programmes in focused clinical environments. Cutting-edge basic science and public and applied health sciences help to underpin this.

Our research has a powerful and measurable impact on patients’ lives and the wider society.

We have teams in three interactive research institutes with 21 cross-cutting research themes. They provide research environments supporting collaborative research across the University and wider society.

We speed up our research through strong relationships with our regional NHS Trust partners and industry.

Research institutes

Promoting our scientific disciplines and supporting our academic community and students to realise their full potential.

Research themes

Collaborative working at its best. Interdisciplinary teams tackling scientific and healthcare challenges.

Centres of Research Excellence

Our Faculty leads on a number of Centres of Research Excellence (NUCoREs). Enabling our existing areas of excellence to grow in both resource and people. The NUCoREs provide a focus to bring together groups from across our University and beyond. 

Centre for Ageing and Inequalities

Improving the health and wellbeing of older people and removing inequalities.

Centre for Cancer

Bringing together basic science, clinical care and lifestyle interventions.

Centre for Healthier Lives

Empowering the population to live better for longer.

Centre for Rare Disease

Translating outstanding science into novel therapies and integrated care approaches.

Centre for Transformative Neuroscience

An interdisciplinary centre that tackles major neuroscientific questions.

Innovation hubs

Creative homes for developing and disseminating novel methodologies in state-of-the-art facilities.

The National Institute for Health Research

The National Institute for Health Research hosts a number of centres and facilities.
Study with us
Engagement opportunities
For business