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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Sheffield Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is part of the NIHR and hosted by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Sheffield.
The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.
NIHR Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs) are purpose-built facilities in NHS hospitals where researchers can conduct studies. The NIHR has awarded £161 million over 5 years to 28 CRF facilities across England, to support early-phase and complex studies.
In 2022, the NIHR Sheffield CRF was awarded £7.9m in funding which will support the development and testing of new treatments for diseases, many of which currently have no cure. This funding award covers 2022 to 2029.
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The NIHR Sheffield BioResource Centre welcomes their 100th participant to IBHO
The NIHR Sheffield BioResource Centre welcomes their 100th participant to IBHO
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Sheffield BioResource Centre has recruited its 100th participant into a research project aimed at addressing health conditions that disproportionately affect Black communities in the UK.
The NIHR Sheffield BioResource Centre is hosted by the NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility (CRF) with dedicated management provided by the NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Our goal is to improve long-term prevention and treatment of disease. The national NIHR BioResource is a panel of over 340,000 volunteers with and without health conditions, who have provided genetic and lifestyle information that will contribute to research studies.
Since launching just over two years ago, the NIHR Sheffield BioResource Centre has opened several successful programmes to support recruitment of members of our community into NIHR BioResource projects, including the pioneering Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) project. IBHO is a research initiative dedicated to studying health conditions affecting people from Black communities.
By supporting this national effort, the NIHR Sheffield BioResource also hopes to improve knowledge and understanding of health conditions and their impacts on all UK communities.
To read the full article, please visit the NIHR Sheffield BRC website.
(December 2025)
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