UoP Revamps Institute to Boost Life Sciences Research
A research institute at the University of Portsmouth is charting a bold new course for life sciences and healthcare innovation in the South East, with a renewed mission to tackle regional health challenges through cutting-edge collaboration.
With a focus on understanding life at the molecular level, developing technologies and approaches to address global challenges, tackling diseases, developing new treatments, and improving everyday health and care, the Institute of Life Sciences and Healthcare (ILSH) brings together scientists, health care practitioners, and local partners to create real benefits for society.
The Institute was developed by the University’s Faculty of Science and Health and is funded by Research England quality-related (QR) funding.
The relaunch event at the University’s Portland Building underscored the Institute’s vital role in fostering an inclusive, collaborative research environment for Research and Innovation (R&I) activities, embracing a multidisciplinary approach to biosciences. Additional funding for the event was supported by the University Research Culture programme, NIHR Wessex Experimental Medicine Network , and commercial sponsors.
As the University of Portsmouth is a founding member of Wessex Health Partners , ILSH will benefit from close links with other universities in the region, NHS organisations, voluntary and community sector organisations, as well as NIHR -funded and other research infrastructure.
Key regional partners include Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust , who the University has an ongoing strategic partnership with, particularly in the realm of research and education, the NIHR Wessex Experimental Medicine Network , the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Portsmouth City Council , Health Innovation Wessex , the Drug Safety Research Unit , and the other 13 members of Wessex Health Partners – the region’s academic health science partnership.
These connections are vital to ensure researchers can align to address regional health and societal challenges and priorities, work alongside those with lived experience, and vastly increase the real-world impact of their research, with potential for global reach.
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