Wellcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award - Manchester (360G-Wellcome-209747_Z_17_Z)

The University of Manchester proposes to use the Wellcome Institutional Translational Partnership Award (iTPA) funding for the recruitment of two Translation Research Facilitators. These Facilitators will be based within the Health Innovation Manchester (HinM) research hub and will primarily focus on extending a new translational culture across the University with targeted communications to relevant academics and clinicians and research activities that aim to develop and maintain stronger links and constructive relationship between University of Manchester academics with a particular focus on Wellcome Trust funded investigators and Greater Manchester (GM) NHS Trust clinicians; to ensure a two way knowledge transfer notably by the organisation of engagement/dissemination/training events; and to ensure that University of Manchester scientists can access clinical expertise, facilities and services for novel, joint collaborations in the translational research areas represented in the Manchester NIHR BRC as well as more widely across our faculties. The posts will play a major role in moving the pre-clinical research along the translational research continuum by identifying funding opportunities in the early translation stage in order to facilitate pioneering research that reaches patients. The post holders will work closely with the different partners to ensure a coordinated approach to translation and input across the partner organisations. In addition, we propose to use some of the funding for pump priming projects and proof of concept studies to allow Investigators to access technical expertise and to encourage inter-disciplinary working to address major challenges in health linked to our BRC themes and with a particular emphasis in the key strategic area of integrated Advanced Materials in medicine.