In April 2020, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), part of Health Innovation Manchester, was officially designated by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and NHS England up to 2025. Find out more about the designation in this news story.

Academic Health Science Centres are designated by NHS England and the National Institute for Health Research for demonstrating excellence in health research, health education and patient care. MAHSC is one of only eight academic health science centres in England – and the only one in the North West.

Our goal is to make new scientific discoveries and shorten the time to turn them into effective treatments to deliver benefits for patients locally and around the world.

As part of Health Innovation Manchester, MAHSC brings together our world leading academic and NHS partners to drive health research.

The MAHSC discovery and translation strategy is delivered by six domains, each led jointly by an academic and an NHS clinician and chaired by a CEO from a partner Trust. The domains are: Cancer, Cardiovascular & Diabetes, Inflammation and Repair, Mental Health, Neuroscience, and Women & Children.

Crucially, research projects undertaken via MAHSC and GM’s other research bodies are pulled through HInM’s innovation pathway to provide a rich pipeline of evidence-based innovations that can be deployed at pace and scale.  It means we can make real fast-tracked improvements to the health of local people and beyond.

• The University of Manchester
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
• Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (part of the Northern Care Alliance)
• Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

We also work in close collaboration with Manchester’s thriving scientific community and research infrastructure and Greater Manchester’s other higher education institutions.

GM performance in clinical trials

The Clinical Research Network Greater Manchester deliver health and care research studies across Greater Manchester, East Cheshire, and East Lancashire. The region supports research access to over three million people and works with community, primary, social and secondary care and public health providers.

In the last 9 years the CRN have supported over half a million GM residents to participate in research. By 2024, the CRN GM will have provided £193,496,147 infrastructure funding since 2014 to local care organisations.

View a summary of the NIHR GM CRN’s performance within our information pack here

Funding: 14 Feb 2023 – £10,000 funding awards available for Women & Children’s research projects. Read more

Funding: 24 Jan 2023 – £10,000 funding awards available for Inflammation & Repair research projects. Read more

Funding:  10 Aug 2022 – MAHSC Cancer Domain invites clinical staff to apply for funding. Read more

Event: 26 Jul 2022 – MAHSC Cardiovascular Research Domain Workshop and Collaboration Event. Read more

News: 06 Jul 2022 – 16 outstanding NHS clinicians and researchers named MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs 2022. Read more

Event: 11 Apr 2022 – MAHSC Neuroscience Showcase Event: Feedback and Collaborations. Read more

Funding: 15 Mar 2022 – MAHSC Cardiovascular Research Domain Clinical Step-Up Awards invites clinical staff to apply for funding. Read more

For more news and updates visit the Health Innovation Manchester News page.