Health Innovation Manchester and the University of Salford (UoS) have entered into a formal partnership to increase opportunity for collaboration between the UoS and external partners, improve grant income and translate research into practice; with particular emphasis within the Greater Manchester area.

Dr Lloyd Gregory, Academic Partnerships Director at HInM, plays a leading in developing academic partnerships with the local, national and international organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of this region’s population.

Over the next year, Lloyd will play a key role in facilitating the work between UoS, the other Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the health and care commissioners and providers across Greater Manchester.

Lloyd said: “I am delighted that the University of Salford has entered into a formal partnership with Health Innovation Manchester.  Their academic community fully embrace our philosophy of ‘Extreme Collaboration’ and are keen to add value to our work through their expertise, state-of-the-art research facilities and experience in training many of Greater Manchester’s health and social care workforce. I am so looking forward to working with them over the coming months and years.”