Pictured during a visit to the company’s lab at C-TRIC (the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre) is Brendan Farrell, CEO of Crescent Diagnostics and Invest NI’s Chief Executive, Alastair Hamilton.

Clinical diagnostics company, Crescent Diagnostics Ltd (Crescent), is to set up a research and development project in Londonderry to develop a predictive test for osteoporosis.
The [...]

University of Ulster nutrition experts say that one in ten people in Northern Ireland, depending on their genes, could significantly lower their blood pressure and, in turn, their risk of heart disease and stroke by increasing their intake of vitamin B2, which is found in dairy products.
The advice from researchers at the Northern Ireland Centre [...]

Celebrating its fourth successful year, C-TRIC’s Translational Medicine Conference (TMED) is now recognised as a leading international conference in Translational Medicine, the translation of novel ideas in healthcare from concept right through to point of care.
Over 160 international delegates including clinicians, academics and businesses attended in 2011 from USA, UK, Ireland, Mainland Europe and Asia [...]

Image L-R: Dr Susan Whoriskey (Moderna Therapeutics), Prof Maurice O’Kane (C-TRIC) and Trung Do (Partners HealthCare)
Key leaders in the life and health science sector from Boston will once again take stage at the 4th Annual Translational Medicine Conference (TMED4) on 10-11th May in Derry/Londonderry to share how their region has become a global hub for innovation [...]

The reputation of C-TRIC, Northern Ireland’s healthcare innovation hub looks set to be further enhanced through its involvement in a ground-breaking initiative by Randox Laboratories and University of Ulster scientists that aims to bring relief to people with severe rheumatoid arthritis and save the health service millions of pounds each year.
The collaborative approach will focus on [...]

Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC), a clinical evaluation centre and healthcare innovation hub based at one of Northern Ireland’s largest acute hospital sites, is assisting Nova Biomedical, in the research and development of state of the art monitoring technologies for diabetes and liver dysfunction.
Nova Biomedical, headquartered in Waltham Massachussetts, is a world leader [...]

The University of Ulster’s Biomedical Sciences Research Institute and the Western Health & Social Care Trust welcomed the visit of the Health Minister Edwin Poots today, to signal an exciting expansion of its clinically focused research at the Clinical Translational Research & Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) on the Altnagelvin Hospital campus, with the announcement of the [...]

Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) Northern Ireland’s award winning healthcare innovation hub, finds itself back in Boston this week presenting at the Boston-Northwest Ireland Golden Bridges Reception and Showcase event organized by the Irish Echo.  C-TRIC will use this opportunity to showcase it’s R&D capability in the Life and Health Sciences.
In addition, C-TRIC [...]

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A new £2million research facility, the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC), was officially opened today, Wednesday 29 April 2009. The centre of excellence is a purpose built facility located on the Western Health and Social Care Trust’s Altnagelvin Hospital site.  It will act as a [...]