The Clinical Research Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Explainer - how you can help research stem cell therapy for blood cancer
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Dr Chloe Anthias, medical director of the new Cell Collection Centre has just opened by Anthony Nolan charity as part of our NIHR No...
Using Nanopore sequencing to diagnose brain tumors
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This bulletin intro was brought you by Harriet Anderson from Research and Innovation Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Keep listening for mor...
Explainer - how does asthma work?
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asthma is one of the most common conditions - there are 8 million of us in the UK who suffer from it. t can range from the needing a quick puff on y...
Make your contribution to health research
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This bulletin intro was brought to you by Ian Kingsbury from East Genomics Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Keep listening for more team mem...
Explainer - AHP and physio led researcher
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the fundamentals of clinical research is the ‘blind’ bit of the double-blind placebo controlled trial. If neither the researcher nor the pa...
Bulletin 11 - mental health research, Nottingham babies, walking for your liver, and walking for leukaemia
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The intro this week was from Harriet Anderson, who works in the Research and Innovation team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Keep listen...
Nottingham cancer research is in the top two
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’d think that clinical researchers would welcome surprises - but they don’t. Even if the results are new and groundbreaking, they want their tr...
Working with Umecrime Cognition on a treatment for Primary Biliary Cholangitis
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Staff at the NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility talk about the UCAB trial. The facility worked with Swedish pharmaceutical Umecrime Cognition ...
Bulletin 6 - hearing aids vs cochlear implants, ultrasound blood pressure probes, attititudes to genetic research, and healthcare scientists’ showcase
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contacts for his episode: COACH trial for hearing aids vs cochlear implants - More information from coachtrial.ac.uk or email [email protected]...
Developing treatments for cystic fibrosis, depression, alcoholic liver disease and eczema
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bulletin 9 - developing treatments for cystic fibrosis, depression, alcoholic liver disease and eczema In this episode: We pick up on presentations fr...
Bulletin 7: breathing monitors, gene therapy bone grafts, rib fractures, training opportunities and keeping up with urology surgery
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bulletin: Testing the Respirasense breathing monitor from PMD Solutions - https://www.pmd-solutions.com - https://nottinghambrc.nihr.ac.uk/a...
Bulletin 6: Free pizza, gastro intestinal presentations, secure data and rare genomes
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bulletin: Secure Data Environments - https://transform.england.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-info/data-saves-lives/secure-data-environments/ P...
Bulletin 5: PhD opportunities, clinical support, using genomics in diagnosis, a Nottingham first in COPD, two researchers spotlighted internationally, and a reminder to big up your colleagues
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Links to show items Equity in Doctoral Education through Partnership and Innovation programme - https://www.ntu.ac.uk/c/equity-in-doctoral-education...
Bulletin 4 – mental health for young people in hospital, new clinical research facilities in Nottingham, blood, urine and saliva, and research staff awards
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spend an evening with blood, urine, saliva and Nottingham researchers, looking to the future of research at NUH, helping children and young people wit...
Bulletin 3 - football injuries, 500 lung health genes and Covid-19 and vulnerable patients
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this clinical research bulletin from Nottingham: Notts County legend Les Bradd has been helping our researchers investigating football-related in...
Clinical Research bulletin 2 - ASSIST-MS, World Hearing Day/James Lind Alliance, appointments, Liver Partnership, Tummy Track app
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode - clinical research news of ASSIST MS study, World Hearing Day, NIHR researcher appointments, Liver Partnership launch, and the Tummy ...
Nottingham Clinical Research Bulletin 1 - methotrexate, tinnitus, dementia, breast cancer, grants and jobs
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Weekly updates from research and innovation team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre Links M...
We're changing - fortnightly clinical research bulletin
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve launched a new podcast, it’s a short update on research in Nottingham, and it’s for both researchers and anyone interested in clinical res...
What do cancer cells talk about when they're alone (and how are biomaterials going to change clinical treatment)?
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre embarks on its second tranche of funding, we're developing our existing partnerships with other clin...
Why are we part of a new £8.8m grant to investigate lung disease?
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chronic lung diseases are the third biggest cause of death in the world, and in Nottinghamshire, about 1 in 8 people have been diagnosed with asthma o...
Black History Month - where do ethnic minorities get their health information from?
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
October is a vital and important month for many ethnic minorities especially the Black community. In the UK Black History Month is celebrated every ye...
What is genomics and how can healthcare workers use it?
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leaps forward in the understanding of the Human Genome in recent years stand to offer huge benefits to patients - including the possibility of persona...
What is genomics and how can healthcare workers use it?
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Genomics is the future of healthcare which we’re told will revolutionise how patients are treated – but what is it, exactly? And how can healthcar...
What is Nottingham's Clinical Research Facility planning? Interview with deputy director Prof Chris Fox
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nottingham's long been a leader in researching and treating blood cancer - we pioneered blood stem cell transplantation and we're still one of the big...
Coming next - what next for cancer research at Nottingham?
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Newly appointed NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility deputy director Prof Chris Fox talks about cancer research.
How do you explain your research? Interview with Rory Cellan Jones
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
However good research is, if it stays in the lab or on a hard drive somewhere, isn't going to help anyone and of course the reality is that researcher...
Coming up - how to attract journalists to your research
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
However good your research is, if it stays in the lab or on a hard drive somewhere, isn't going to help anyone, or let alone improve your REF number. ...
How do we detect breast cancer earlier?
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One in eight women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and like most cancers, the sooner it can be detected, the better the patient's pros...
How do you ask research questions that numbers won't answer?
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If your child was seriously ill enough that they had to take their nutrients through a tube into their stomach, you might assume as a parent, you'd fo...
Researching how we can help children in mental health crisis at hospital
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When a child or young person comes to hospital in an emergency and mental health issues are clearly involved, how do we know how we can help them best...
Helping children and young people's mental health in hospital
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When a child or young person comes to hospital in an emergency and mental health issues are clearly involved, how do we know how we can help them best...
Becoming a better asthma researcher by asking people with asthma what they want
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
About one in eight people in the UK have asthma attacks and researchers at the Nottingham Asthma Centre (part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS T...
Understanding alcoholism and mental health stories
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alcoholism is one of the biggest factors in liver disease, and a dual diagnosis of alcoholism and mental health problems is very common - it's m...
What can the Covid-19 Zoe app tell us about future variants?
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with Professor Ana Valdes was done in February but we're only posting it now (in April) because it relates to a paper she co-authored w...
How bugs in your gut may help fight skin cancer
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The contents of your stomach may not seem to have much to do with skin cancer, but one of our studies seems to show that there are specific micr...
International Women's Day - our sexual health research
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, and this could certainly be applied to the sexual health research team at NUH. As well as seei...
Join us on 8 March for International Women's Day
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Find out how we're breaking down the barriers to better health for women everywhere.
Keeping patient data safe in our new BioResource
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Research needs data and data needs - in the end - patients. Our researchers spend a lot of time Identifying the right patients for our studies, and mo...
What can a mechanical colon tell us about gastrointestinal medication?
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the problems for treating gastro intestinal conditions is that it's hard to predict exactly how things dissolve in our guts. The food industry ...
Tinnitus Week with Prof David Baguley
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week is #tinnitusweek, organised by @BritishTinnitus. But for the ten percent of the population who have the condition - every week is tinnitus w...
The four things you need to make a difference in clinical research
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can you make a difference as a clinical researcher? University of Nottingham respiratory medicine professor and NHS consultant, Dominick Shaw, tal...
Health, data, and research
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How we make the most of their huge capacity for data, and processing, and artificial intelligence and the issues they might bring is actually th...
Research Hero Zoe Rose (CW - suicide mentions)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For obvious and unavoidable reasons, all the research heroes experiences this year have been about dealing with Covid, but this particular hero had so...
Big data in Covid-19
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Big data' is often a bogeyman term, but at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, reworking how we used data helped keep Nottingham University Hospitals...
How cultural awareness should change clinical research - and researchers
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guest is Professor Guru Aithal, Deputy Director of the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and a world-leading researcher in gast...
Research Heroes - the Children's Research Team
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this episode is Helen Navarra from the Children's Research Team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Helen is in conversation with ...
Redthread youth violence intervention programme
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to a report on a joint project between Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (and the Major Trauma Centre it hosts), and national ...
Kathryn Fairbrother, Head of Nursing Research & Innovation
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Fairbrother is the new Head of Nursing for Research & Innovation at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. In this episode of Th...
Research Hero - Laura Looby
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode's Research Hero is Laura Looby a children's clinical research nurse - normally. Fairly early on in the Covid outbreak it became clear tha...
Pulmonx trial into emphysema treatment
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the UK, about 1.3 million people are living with COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - , and there's no cure - but there's a lot of resear...
How does group membership help psychosis recovery?
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ask most people who they are, and they'll talk about their job, their likes and dislikes, their appearance. But there's another way of defining your i...
Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorder research in Nottingham
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical research is very much about collaboration, which means it can often also be very much about lots of organisations, with lots of initials. We ...
Allied Health Professionals leading clinical research
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly clinical research is being led by a broader range of clinical professionals - but there is more to do to encourage physiotherapists, heal...
Research Hero - John Sweeney
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Sweeney is a cleaner working at Nottingham City Hospital who was nominated for an award by the Respiratory Research Team for his part in supporti...
Research Hero - Irfan Aslam
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our research hero this time is one of the people who helps set up studies in Nottingham, research facilitator Irfan Aslam. Later in the pandemic...
Red4Research
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Staff, patients, and just about anyone else who wants to, at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will be wearing red today (18 June 2021). They'...
Diabetes Week and fatty liver disease
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week is Diabetes Week so I've been speaking to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust hepatologist Professor Guru Aithal, whose research inclu...
Research Hero - Lucy Ryan
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest of our interviews with winners of our Research Heroes awards, Andrew Bennett talks to clinical research manager Lucy Ryan, who works on ...
Glaucoma treatment - TAGS study
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Glaucoma is when the optic nerve is damaged, generally by high pressure in the eye, and it's treated by lowering that pressure to minimise any further...
Research Hero - Georgia Melia
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, research practitioner Georgia Melia had to learn new skills on her feet as she was moved to the lab from patient wards, as part of our work...
Research Heroes - Lindsay Crate
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Crate is a nurse by background, but now her role is about making sure that studies run smoothly - that there are enough staff, they're p...
Research Hero - Kebba Konteh
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Known as 'The Blood God' for his unerring ability to get a sample from even the most elusive of veins, clinical research practitioner Kebba Konteh put...
Research Heroes - Kate Frost
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's a given - now - that good study design means a process of involving patients at every step, from the big questions like 'what shall we investigat...
The CHEAR study
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know about Long Covid symptoms like breathlessness and prolonged fatigue, but there are also signs that it can effect the hearing, tinnitus, an...
Research Heroes - Jesse Oliver
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse is is a clinical research practitioner at the NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility. He was initially drawn to lab work because he liked be...
Dr Sarah Brand on her Learning Lunches
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Research is everywhere in Nottingham University Hospitals - not just on the wards but down corridors in that block on that floor we just have no reaso...
Poet Ian McMillan talks about how he thanked the people of Nottingham for Covid-19 research
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The researchers at Nottingham University Hospitals couldn't do what they do without the thousands of other people who sometimes don't get the credit t...
What's it like to work on the UK's biggest Covid-19 research trial?
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists based in Nottingham research teams at Nottingham University Hospitals have recruited more than 600 patients into RECOVERY, the world's bigg...
Long Covid and the NoRCoRP platform
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's no obvious correlation between how seriously Covid affects a patient initially, and its longer term effects. One of our research programmes is...