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GJBrainResearch @gjbrainresearch.bsky.social · 5d

🧠Exciting news! Further funding for pioneering approach to slow or stop Parkinson’s...

Dr Roy Ng, our preclinical dementia lead joins @parkinsons.org.uk funded project with Cellestial Health to explore astrocyte-targeted therapies for Parkinson’s.

👉https://shorturl.at/O28cN

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · 11d

Recommended: The consultant nephrologist who uses his experience of deprivation to help patients. Great interview with Prof Darren Green in @BMJ, highlighting barriers he faced getting into medicine, his connection with patients & support for colleagues at NCA. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · 17d

We're so proud of our Northern Care Alliance colleagues Rumbi Gore and Danyal Mohammed who are shortlisted finalists at the National BAME Health & Care Awards tonight - 2 incredibly dedicated & innovative members of our research team!

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · 20d

More high-quality research is needed to improve outcomes for people living with #dementia in hospital - conclusion of a systematic review of physical activity interventions by colleagues @arc-gm.bsky.social & Northern Care Alliance rdcu.be/eHwwS
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Physical activity interventions for hospitalised people living with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · 26d

Are you awaiting or had knee replacement surgery? Researchers @fbmh_uom want to know your ideas on improving the patient journey from before to after the surgery.
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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · 26d

Patients at Salford Royal will help accelerate development of a diagnostic test for early detection of colorectal cancer. Dr Arash Assadsangabi will lead collection of samples via the NCARC tissue bank to evaluate Tagomics’ novel test in real-world samples. www.ncaresearch.org.uk/news/could-w...

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NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨Applications are now open for Round 2 of our Patient Safety Research Development Award!

We’re inviting professionals in the Northwest & East Midlands to help advance patient safety across health and care settings

🗓️Join our webinar on 25 Sept
🔗 www.psrc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/development-...

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great work here by our former colleague @jdwilko.bsky.social - introducing INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials (RCTs). These are RCTs where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings....

www.medrxiv.org

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Registration is open for the North-West Colo-Gynae Symposium on 19 September 2025 at The Royal Oldham Hospital (part of Northern Care Alliance NHS), bringing together leading surgeons, researchers & healthcare professionals in colorectal & gynaecology treatment.
📧 [email protected]

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr Zenas Yiu, a dermatologist at Northern Care Alliance NHS shares what inspired his career & the exciting innovations on the horizon in this short blog. He was recently named as a
Touch Dermatology Future Leader 2025
touchderma.com/insight/3-qu...

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 2

The #DSUKConference2025 on 14 November is the UK’s only Dravet Syndrome-focused scientific meeting. Join Dravet UK at London St Pancras for a day of research & clinical updates.🩺 Medical professionals & researchers, view the agenda: bit.ly/DSUKProfConf25
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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 2

Got a NVQ level 2 in #Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) & experience of working in a hospital pharmacy setting? Here's a great opportunity to join our clinical trials pharmacy team as a band 3 assistant, supporting a range of studies. Apply by 9 September. www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manch...

Job vacancy: Clinical Trials Assistant, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford | trac.jobs

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Sep 1

Got a NVQ level 2 in #Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) & experience of working in a hospital pharmacy setting? Here's a great opportunity to join our clinical trials pharmacy team as a band 3 assistant, supporting a range of studies.
Apply by 9 September.
www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manch...

Job vacancy: Clinical Trials Assistant, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford | trac.jobs

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the pharmacy clinical trials team based at Salford at the Northern Care Alliance, to support the delivery of an expanding…

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EM Oldham Research - Royal Oldham Hospital @edresearchroh.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very proud of our Core Team & the amazing Community Research Team for recruiting the first Oldham CHART study patient ! ⭐️🙌

Read more here arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/research/pro...
@emmavardy2.bsky.social @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to sustain independence for older people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fracture (HFpEF) and frailty: The CHART Trial - PenARC

The CHART Trial aims to improve lives for people with heart failure and frailty.

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Aug 22

So proud of Rumbi Gore & Danyal Mohammed from community research team at Northern Care Alliance, who've both been shortlisted for the national BAME Health & Care Awards, Rumbi for Future Leader Next Gen category & Dany for Outstanding Social & Community Care Award. Fingers crossed for 25 September!

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NIHR ARC Greater Manchester @arc-gm.bsky.social · Aug 19

Are you a researcher who wants to develop more inclusive recruitment approaches?

Join our free online drop-in sessions to build skills, connect with communities, and shape mental health research.

Register below 👇

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Aug 19

A big thank you to our research star of the month at Salford Royal, Melissa Drake (known as Missa). She's an academic foundation programme trainee who has really got stuck in to a number of complex projects at Cenect, our Centre for Emergency Care and Trauma Sciences.

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations Dr Tina Chrysochou , Miss Tina Karabatsou & Mr Kanna Gnanalingham, who've been appointed MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs. The awards recognise their major contributions to their clinical specialities, including excellence in research & education.
www.ncaresearch.org.uk/news/surgeon...

Professors Tina Chrysochou, Tina Karabatsou and Kanna Gnanalingham

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NF2 BioSolutions UK & Europe @nf2biosolutionsuk.bsky.social · Jul 23

New funding for NF2 research from the team at the
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Title: Understanding CD8+ T cell responses in NF2-Schwannomatosis-related vestibular schwannoma tumours
Funder: UKRI / Medical Research Council
Value: £710k
gjbrainresearch.org/2025/07/18/n...
#schwannomatosis #NF2

New funding for NF2 research

Colleagues working across our brain tumour and inflammation themes have been award £700,000 from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and The Medical Research Council for their project on Understanding C...

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Aug 6

A MAHSC Clinical Fellowship for Northern Care Alliance
Consultant @katycdodd.bsky.social will boost myasthenia gravis research. Biobank collections at NCA & @mcrcnews.bsky.social will facilitate lab work to explore biomarkers of disease.
ncaresearch.org.uk/news/clinica...

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · May 29

Have you had a spinal cord injury or know someone who has? Colleagues at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust are looking to set up a new group and want your views. There's a short questionnaire here: forms.gle/9kcG9Mei2YoY...

Would you like to help develop a group for those who have sustained a spinal cord injury? We are interested in developing an outpatient group for individuals who have sustained a spinal cord injury (SCI). It is important to us that those with SCI are involved in the development of the group so it can be relevant and meaningful to our attendees. We would like to hear your opinions about groups you have attended, potential topics and helpful and unhelpful aspects of group. To contribute, please complete our short questionnaire. You can the QR code to access this. Alternatively you can follow the link below: https://forms.gle/9kcG9Mei2YoYMCMY8 For more information please contact roshae.postill@nca.nhs.uk (Trainee Clinical Psychologist)

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Katy Dodd @katycdodd.bsky.social · Jul 16

We’re delighted to share the publication of our Cochrane Review: Rituximab for myasthenia gravis

This systematic review examined the RCT evidence for this B cell depleting therapy in myasthenia, and is now available via the Cochrane Library.

🔗 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Rituximab for myasthenia gravis - Dodd, KC - 2025 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

www.cochranelibrary.com

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Jul 17

Another interesting paper building on the smell of Parkinson's from our colleagues @uommib.bsky.social and @i-med.ac.at & supported by colleagues, patients and healthy volunteers at Northern Care Alliance. Findings support the use of sebum as an accessible biofluid.
rdcu.be/ewDgB
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Classification of Parkinson’s disease and isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder: delineating progression markers from the sebum volatilome

npj Parkinson's Disease - Classification of Parkinson’s disease and isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder: delineating progression markers from the sebum volatilome

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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health @fbmh-uom.bsky.social · Jul 16

A new £50m Medical Research Council Centre is set to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases.
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases

The environment is increasingly acknowledged to play a critical role in our risk of developing diseases, with 30,000 deaths attributed to air pollution alone in the UK each year. A new research centre...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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Research at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust @ncaresearchnhs.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congratulations to @uvmark.bsky.social who has been appointed as co-lead of the dermatology theme at the @nihr.bsky.social Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. As he says, skin diseases & complex wounds are among the most common, chronic & quality-of-life-reducing conditions in the UK.