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HRB-TMRN Research Associate secures HRB funding to nurture and develop trials methodology research agenda

HRB invests €7 million to nurture a talented new generation of academic researchers Health inequality, schizophrenia, and therapies in children with cystic fibrosis are three of nine important topics to be addressed by our Emerging Investigator Awards for Health (EIA) 2022. Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar based in UCC and a HRB-TMRN Research Associate secured funding for …

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A Place for Learning – Inaugural Lecture – Honorary Professor Derek C Stewart, OBE

Delivered online – 4th November 2020 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEuB1B4jYz8 Dia Dhuit In Scots we say: A Cuid Mile Fàilte a chairdean (A hundred thousand welcomes, friends) Today I say: Dia Dhuit – Jee-ah gwitch agus Go raibh maith agat – gur-uv mah ah-guth (hello and thank you) I profusely thank Prof Ciarán Ó hOgartaigh, the President of the National University of Ireland, Galway …

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HRB invests €3 million to make clinical trials more relevant, accessible and influential for all

Date 22nd July 2021: Continued funding of the HRB-Trial Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN) reinforces its important role in strengthening the methodology and reporting of trials in health and social care in Ireland. Since 2014, the HRB-TMRN has been a key component of Health Research Board (HRB)-funded clinical research infrastructure, working in harmony with Clinical Research …

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Retention to clinical trials: how can we keep participants involved?

In this blog for all those involved in clinical trials, Katie Gillies and Derek Stewart, from the Trials Methodology Research Partnership and the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Research Network, highlight the need for focused research on trial retention to help fill the evidence gaps identified in a national research agenda on retention to clinical trials …

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Celebrating the achievements of our Covid-19 rapid response research – by Annalisa Montesanti HRB

Earlier this year HRB joined the global fight against COVID-19. In cooperation with the Irish Research Council (IRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), HRB launched a rapid response mechanism to fund research that would provide evidence for the national and global efforts to tackle the virus outbreak. The funding call covered medical countermeasures, health service …

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The forgotten, the ignored and the under-served – trials cannot continue to fail large parts of society

By Prof Shaun Treweek & Colleagues –  We do randomised trials to improve healthcare decisions, decisions that may have a lasting influence on people’s health. Every day the public, patients, healthcare professionals and policymakers make decisions about healthcare, their own or that of others. Randomised trials can help to make those decisions more informed. [Read …

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Improving clinical trials: Keep the focus on the participants

Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, discusses how COVID-19 has brought clinical trials to the forefront and outlines recent work done by the Centre on improving the experience of those participating in clinical trials. Suddenly everyone is talking about clinical trials. COVID-19 has raised their public profile and …

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What is Trials Methodology Research – a patient’s viewpoint.

Date: 24 March 2020 By Derek Stewart – Patient Representative & MRC-NIHR-TMRP PPI Lead Trials Methodology Research (1) is about looking at the way health research is carried out – i.e. improving the tools and trade of research practice. It is carried out by researchers often referred to as Methodologists. These types of studies differ from doing …

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