HHTU News Roundup

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Research opens

In big news the new Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Research (CAMHR) has been launched. Our Director Judith Cohen, alongside Prof Tom Philips (who is currently Project Investigator on numerous studies at the HHTU), were successfully awarded £11 million by NIHR to set up this world leading research centre which will carry out essential research into addiction and mental health. The initial five years of research will focus on those often hidden or excluded from treatment across three core groups:

• young people with substance use and mental health problems.
• adults with substance use disorder and mental health problems, and
• the needs of adults with alcohol-related cognitive impairments.

To find out more about CAMHR please visit their webpage here: https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/research/groups/centre-for-addiction-and-mental-health-research.

HHTU Director presents in Budapest

The HHTU’s Director Judith Cohen attended the General Assembly Meeting REMEDi4ALL in Budapest this month. REMEDi4ALL are the European Platform for Drug Repurposing and the HHTU’s MOI-A Study is a part of the REMEDi4ALL consortium.

Judith presented the progress and challenges experienced with the MOI-A study and subsequent changes to the protocol which have been made following discussions with the Drug Repurposing Development Team at REMEDi4ALL. A theme running through the event was patient centricity and there were some excellent presentation around this through the meeting. To read more about REMEDi4ALL click here and for the MOI-A study click here.

1st participants recruited in COPD Cardio Protect

COPD Cardioprotect got underway with the first three participants recruited to the study in October. COPD CardioProtect is looking at the effect of adding an inhaled steroid (budesonide) has on platelet activity and function in people with COPD to better understand the relationship between COPD and cardiovascular disease.

More information can be found on the project page:
https://hhtu.hull.ac.uk/copd-cardio-protect/   

Information Systems Manager Organises National Meeting

John Turgoose, our Information Systems Manager recently organised the UKCRC Data and Information Systems Operational Group (DISOG) National meeting as a part of his role as the co-chair of the group. This was in Leeds and brought together data professionals from accross the country. The presentations highlighted invaluable best practices and shared insights on a wide range of data and systems-related topics.

New Trial Manager joins the team

In October we had another new starter joining the ever growing HHTU team. Grant Constable joins us from Hull University Teaching Hospitals where he worked in the Sponsorship team where he was a Quality Assurance Clinical Trials Monitor and he also has a background in the pharmaceutical industry. He is now a Trial Manager at HHTU and has started managing the BREEZE-2 and DAMPenD 2 studies.