Driving innovation and impact At the Usher Institute, we are committed to advancing research that addresses critical health challenges, with a focus on improving health and wellbeing through innovation.This year, we’ve made notable progress in areas such as reproductive justice, housing, childhood health, critical care, cancer prevention, and global health. Our research tackles real-world issues, from improving patient outcomes to reducing health disparities.Our discoveries are designed to create real-world impact, such as improving living conditions for vulnerable communities and providing equitable healthcare solutions globally.We also prioritise a supportive research environment, funding colleagues to attend conferences and further their development. Our newly refreshed Usher Research Committee continues to promote a positive research culture and is working on an action plan to support our vision for a thriving research community.Examples of some of the many new research grants awarded across Usher in 2024Dr Karissa Patton from the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society secured a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award entitled “Reproductive Justice, Healthcare & History: Community Engaged Histories of Reproductive Health Care and Activism in Scotland and Alberta 1967-1990” (~£700K)Dr Olivia Swann from the Centre for Medical Informatics secured a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award entitled “How are underheated homes associated with childhood respiratory infections and how does modifying existing housing affect infection risk?” (~£1.1M)Dr Annemarie Docherty from the Centre for Medical Informatics secured a Career Development Award from the Wellcome Trust for research into “Improving outcomes in critically ill patients using novel high dimensional multimodal data-driven innovation” (~£2.5M) Professor David Weller from the Centre for Population Health Sciences was awarded a programme grant from Cancer Research UK to look at “Risk stratification in UK bowel screening programmes” (~£2.5M)Professor Igor Rudan from the Centre for Global Health successfully secured funding from the NIHR for the Global Health Research call for Improving equity in respiratory disease outcomes in Africa using data-driven tools: "EQUI-RESP-AFRICA" (~£3.3M)Professor Steff Lewis from the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit secured funding from the NIHR-HTA for “Inpatient GRAduated Compression stocking use as an adjunct to Extended duration pharmacoprophylaxis for venous thromboembolism prevention – the GRACE“ (~£395K)Further informationLatest news | Usher Institute This article was published on 2024-12-13
