Driving Research & Innovation Forward
The Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) is a unique facility promoting and facilitating translational and clinical research, the primary objective of which is to reduce both the time to market and the costs associated with research and development of innovative health technologies, medical devices and therapeutics. C-TRIC’s unique infrastructure and key support staff facilitate clinical research and innovation, enabling the streamlining of developments from the laboratory to the market place through a focused ‘bench to point of care’ approach. This focused activity will create commercial opportunities to develop and exploit partnerships between academic researcher, clinical practitioner and industry.
Calling Innovators in Health Care
C-TRIC can assist you in the development of your new product for the global healthcare market across a range of requirements.
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Accommodating Healthcare Innovators
Innovators in Healthcare can access lettable space at C-TRIC working closely with clinical practitioners at a large acute hospital site to develop their ideas.
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Exemplar Clinical Research at C-TRIC
C-TRIC is facilitating a range clinical trials and evaluations sponsored by both industry and government including the TUDA study.
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£11.5m Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine Launched at C-TRIC
Image: Prof Tony Bjourson, Director, Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine Centre based at C-TRIC (centre) with Health Minister Edwin Poots and Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and Health Minister Edwin Poots today announced the opening of an £11.5million clinical research facility in Londonderry which will create 22 high-quality researchposts. The Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine …
Ulster Hosts visit by Arthritis Research UK Chief
In the pic: Dr David Gibson (Lecturer in Stratified Medicine, University of Ulster), Philip Gardiner (Consultant Rheumatologist, Western Trust), Professor Alan Silman (Medical Director of Arthritis Research UK), Professor Tony Bjourson (Director, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster) University of Ulster, this week hosted a visit by Professor Alan Silman, Medical Director of Arthritis Research UK. Prof Silman is responsible for providing the strategic …
TMED Health Challenge 2013 Winners Announced
Five companies developing healthcare and lifestyle projects pitched against each other in the final of the TMED Health Challenge 2013, which took place as part of this year’s CultureTECH festival. The TMED Health Challenge 2013 developed in partnership with C-TRIC, the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre, HSC Innovations and CultureTECH, aimed to challenge the creative and digital industries to …
Local Developers Rise to the TMED Health Challenge
Eight healthcare and lifestyles projects will battle it out in the final of the TMED Health Challenge, which takes place as part of this year’s CultureTECH festival. C-TRIC, the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre, in partnership with HSC Innovations and CultureTECH, have challenged creative and digital industries to address unmet needs in health and wellbeing. The TMED Health Challenge, sponsored by Invest Northern …
C-TRIC hosts the UK Bioincubator Forum
C-TRIC will host a number of meetings this week with members of the UK Bioincubator Forum (UK BIF) which involves a number of key BioIncubators from across the UK who have joined together to strengthen their offering to the early stage life and health science sector. Participating in the meetings will be organisations such as BioCity Nottingham, BioCity Scotland, Colworth …
Leading Biochemist Returns to City
The future development of clinical translational research and stratified medicine in the north west has received a major boost with the appointment of Dr David Gibson as Lecturer in Stratified Medicine at the University of Ulster. Dr Gibson will be based at C-TRIC, (Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre) at the Altnagelvin Hospital campus in Derry/Londonderry where he will undertake …
C-TRIC visit GlaxoSmithKline
C-TRIC formed part of a Northern Ireland delegation who recently attended a major innovation event on the GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) R&D site in Stevenage. The PraxisUnico meeting titled “What Industry wants from Academia” on 7th and 8th May focused largely on innovation bioscience and healthcare and waschaired by Malcolm Skingle, Director, Academic Liason, GSK Pharma. This was the largest UK networking …
City leads the way in Healthcare Innovation
The beginning of May will put Derry/Londonderry centre stage for the Life and Health Sciences as a series of high profile events and conferences take place in the city. These include a meeting of the ‘Innovation for Health and Wealth Forum’, an industry led forum established to explore how the life sciences sector can be grown in Northern Ireland, …
TMED Health Hack to explore digital solutions
The 5th Annual Translational Medicine Conference (TMED5) will take place on 2-3rd May this year. TMED5 will explore the challenges of delivering healthcare to an ageing population and showcase novel approaches in both disease prevention and management. The conference attracts academics, clinicians, researchers and industry and will promote discussion and engagement around the grand challenges relating to the health and …
CASE STUDY I – Evaluation of Diagnostic Test [Rheumastrat]
Randox Laboratories, the University of Ulster and the Western Trust, at C-TRIC are working jointly on the development of a simple blood test for those suffering from certain inflammatory conditions such as Rheumatoid arthritis. The novel test aims to match “responder” patients to new advanced “biologic” drugs, costing up to per £10,000 per patient per year. By also indentifying “non-responders”, …