February 11, 2025

An antibiotic used to treat infective diarrhoea could be an effective drug for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a new study has found. Results published in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis revealed that an…

January 22, 2025

Patients will be better able to benefit from innovations in medical artificial intelligence (AI) if a new set of internationally agreed recommendations are followed. A new set of recommendations published in The Lancet Digital Health and…

October 7, 2024

The University of Birmingham is hosting the Research for Greener Surgery Conference 2024 on Tuesday 17 December 2024 on the campus.   It will include sessions on sustainable anaesthesia, sustainability in a global health context, reusable…

October 7, 2024

Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) has enrolled the first patient in Europe into a new trial investigating a therapeutic mRNA-based “pancreatic cancer vaccine”. Known as autogene cevumeran or BNT122, the “vaccine” is an individualised neoantigen specific…

June 17, 2024

A research team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has treated the first patient in England with a personalised vaccine for their bowel cancer. As part of the nationwide first, Elliot Pfebve from Walsall, received the…

March 25, 2024

Owkin and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) announced today a new five year research partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the screening and diagnosis of a range of diseases, starting with colorectal cancer. …

November 30, 2023

The NIHR/ Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility Birmingham (CRF) was established in 2001 and is based across University Hospitals Birmingham and Birmingham Women’s and Children’s hospital. The CRF provides a high-quality clinical environment where volunteers and…