A clinical trails exemplar
Manchester offers a network of clinical research locations including:
- Central Manchester hospitals complex, founded in 1752, includes Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester Dental Hospital and St Mary’s Women’s Hospital
- The Wellcome Trust clinical research facility for adult and paediatric studies and the world’s largest early phase clinical trials centre for oncology
- Major clinical trials activity in cardiovascular, respiratory and diabetes including The Respiratory and Allergy Clinical Research Facility at The University Hospital of South Manchester – the largest clinical trials unit for early phase asthma and COPD studies in the UK
- A major UK centre for genomics and pharmacogenetics research
- MIMIT™ – Manchester Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology – is the first translation outside the USA of the highly successful CIMIT® initiative for generating and developing innovations in medical and health technology