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Participants being sought to take part in national COVID-19 trial
12th October 2020
PRINCIPLE is a nationwide clinical trial to find COVID-19 treatments for the over 50s that can be taken at home Led by Oxford University, the Platform...
Applied Research on Longer-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection
6th October 2020
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) are launching a call for applied research proposals designed to improve understanding of the longer-term effects of COVID-19 infection on phys...
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Over 250,000 volunteers now registered for new COVID-19 vaccine trials as recruitment begins for Novavax study
25th September 2020
Ten thousand UK volunteers have been invited to join the world’s first phase three COVID-19 vaccine study to test the effectiveness of the new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
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10,000 NHS Scotland staff to take part in COVID-19 study
8th September 2020
SIREN (Sarscov2 Immunity & REinfection EvaluatioN) is a UK-wide study testing 100,000 health workers, which will provide information on immunity from and prevalence of COV...
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Over 100,000 volunteers now registered for COVID-19 vaccine trials
17th August 2020
As the number of people registered to take part in COVID-19 vaccine trials has now topped 100,000, we are encouraging others to follow their lead to help speed up efforts to d...
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NHS Research Scotland Restarting Research Survey
14th August 2020
A new patient survey has been launched by NHS Research Scotland to capture confidence levels of patients returning to participate in NHS research. Whilst COVID-1...
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Guidance on health and social care research projects for educational purposes - update
13th August 2020
In March 2020 the Health Research Authority (HRA) and devolved administrations (DA's) announced the suspension of reviewing applications for individual undergraduate and...
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Landmark MND trial opens in Dundee
12th August 2020
The groundbreaking motor neurone disease clinical drugs trial, MND-SMART, has today opened to participants in NHS Tayside. This is the trial’s second UK centre. ...
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Make It Public transparency strategy launches
30th July 2020
The new strategy marks a step-change in making health research findings available to the public The Health Rese...
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CSO Clinical Academic Fellowships - 2020 scheme open
7th July 2020
The Chief Scientists Office Clinical Academic Fellowships 2020 scheme is now open for applications This scheme has been developed to help address longstanding concerns...
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