Improving brain health: the future in mind

NIHR Biomedical Research Centres bring together academics and clinicians to translate lab-based discoveries into potential new treatments, diagnostics and technologies. The NIHR has awarded £816 million over five years to 20 BRCs across England.

The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC): Oxford Health is led by Professor Rachel Upthegrove and based at the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.  The BRC: Oxford Health is run in partnership with the University of Oxford and involves 13 additional partner university and NHS Trusts across England.  Support for infrastructure is provided by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) for 11 research Themes focused on brain health.

The BRC: Oxford Health also hosts the NIHR Translational Research Collaboration: Mental Health (NIHR TRC: MH – a network comprising of a number of UK centres of excellence with strong industry collaborations.

Funded by the Department of Health & Social Care, Office for Life Sciences and also hosted by BRC: Oxford Health, the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission increases capacity in mental health research through providing relevant training and creating better systems to support industry- and academic-led research and investment across the UK.

Together with its partners, the BRC: Oxford Health will develop a national network of centres of excellence, with the aim of creating a platform to deliver high quality experimental medicine research focused on new treatments and procedures to improve mental health conditions and more broadly, patients’ lives.