HHTU News Roundup

A half year roundup

Unbelievably as we are at the halfway point of 2025, it seems like a good time to reflect on what has been a busy first six months of the year and to look forward to what the next six months has to bring.

The STARLIT programme of work kicked things off in January with the final study report submitted to the NHS Research Ethics Committee and the STARLIT-2 protocol paper published in the BMJ Open. The third STARLIT study opened to recruitment in March with 9 participants consent to date.

Another new study progressing well is BREEZE-2 which opened in March with has 12 site opens and  has recruited 12 participants. The third new trial to open was ACESO which opened April and is already at 12 participants with sites open which is a really positive start.

HHTU Director Judith Cohen gave a presentation to the Hull York Medical School on International Women’s Day detailing the interesting journey her career has taken from A levels to being the Director of HHTU and Co-Lead of the new NIHR Centre for Addictions and Mental Health Research.

Trial Manager Matthew Northgraves secured his first research grant to embed a study within a trial (SWAT) in a HHTU study and also presented to at the UKCRC (UK Clinical Research Collaboration) trial manager operations group ‘Insights for Trial Managers from around the Network’ webinar, one of our previous SWATs. Highlighting some of the methodological work we are doing at the HHTU.

With more new studies in set-up in the second part of 2025 the year promises to continue to be a busy one…

Other June project headlines:

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