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| 1 | University of Birmingham | Institute of Translational Medicine - University of Birmingham | 1745 | 15 | 47.9 | 3:36 | Situated across five floors in the heritage building, within the heart of the Birmingham Health Partners campus, the Institute of Translational Medicine benefits from being in close proximity to a number of its key partners, including the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women's Hospital and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. My name is Francesca Barone, I'm a clinician scientist and my rheumatologist, and my area research is around rheumatic disease. So my group works across two research areas. We work in clinical trials and we work in them mainly in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, but also we collaborate with companies and with other academics on early research development. And this is mainly through working humans, but also it's an animal work. And for the human work we're very lucky because within the Institute of Translational Medicine we have access to cohorts of patients, so we have the possibility to access to biological material, the patients very kindly donate, as well as clinical data. So these are extremely precious to really dissect different pathogenetic mechanisms in humans. And then we have the possibility to look back at animal work and to dissect some of the mechanisms that we've identified in humans in a more mechanistic way. I hope to develop more our research, more and more into humans, and to really try to understand what is the right drug for the right patients. And this is what we're trying to do here, and our research is going towards the direction, to refine the mechanism of the drugs that we already have, to repurpose drugs that have already been made, and to help in the development of new compounds that will be specialized for specific patients. And that's I think is the core of the precision medicine. The Institute's unique location means that patients and our industrial partners can benefit from the co-location of a number of nationally important buildings, including the Advanced Therapist Facility, the Human Biomaterials Resource Centre, and the West Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network. This co-location fosters and allows research partnerships to flourish, enabling communication and collaboration between different disciplines and expertise, to facilitate the rapid and cost-effective development of new drugs, medical devices and diagnostics. My name is Liam Grover, I'm a professor of Biomaterial Science here at the University of Birmingham. I'm a material scientist by training, but my research really focuses on using materials, both polymers and ceramics in order to try and repair and regenerate parts of the damaged human body. Birmingham Health Partners and the Institute of Translational Medicine have both been incredibly important to my career and to my research. I've always spent time looking at basic scientific phenomena, being able to have my research in the Institute of Translational Medicine, and having links with clinicians and patient groups facilitated by Birmingham Health Partners, have really helped to focus my research so it has the best possible chance of reaching patient benefit. The Institute is a place where scientists, researchers, clinicians and industry partners can come together to translate innovative medical science into tangible patient benefits, rapidly, rigorously and seamlessly. The Institute of Translational Medicine has also been a place where scientists, scientists, scientists, and scientists, can come together to translate innovative medical science into tangible patient benefits, | ↗ |