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About the NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility
About the NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility
The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is funded by the NIHR to accelerate the delivery of experimental medicine clinical research and enable the faster translation of scientific discovery into patient benefit. The CRF provides access to NHS patients and healthy volunteers in a dedicated, specialist environment within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Open to researchers from all clinical disciplines, the CRF are experienced in undertaking all types of commercial and academic sponsored clinical research; from first in man studies to late phase and observational studies.
Sheffield CRF can accommodate all types of visits, including overnight stays and have worked with most directorates within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The team combines specialist research nurses, clinical trial assistants and clinical research data coordinators to support the delivery of studies in the most appropriate way.
Team
Team
Over 78 members of staff work at the Sheffield Clinical Research Facility full-time, supporting nearly 150 experimental medicine studies. Sheffield BRC investigators work closely with dedicated staff across a variety of complex studies.
Professor Chris Newman
Director of the NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility
Karen French
Head of Operations
Gail Mills
Lead Nurse R&D
Jo Kadziola
CRF Matron
Alex Radford
BRC Clinical Team Lead
Liam Haslam
BRC Research Charge Nurse (on secondment)
Lisa Woodhall
BRC Research Sister
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