The
NIHR invests significantly in centres of excellence, collaborations, services
and facilities to support research in England. Collectively these form the NIHR
research infrastructure. We award more than £606 million of funding per year to
world leading NHS organisations and academic institutions with a proven,
international track record in health and care research. The funding awards are
significant multi-million-pound investments. Our significant and sustained
research infrastructure funding supports the country’s leading experts in
world-class research organisations. NIHR
research infrastructure funding provides a platform to enable research, acting
as a targeted and strategic investment to create an environment where early
stage and applied research can thrive. Our research infrastructure provides
research expertise, specialist facilities, a research delivery workforce and
support services which all help to support and deliver the research we fund,
and research funded by others. Research funded by UK Research and Innovation
(UKRI), medical research charities, the life sciences industry
(biopharmaceuticals, medtech, genomics, diagnostics and digital health), and
other relevant industries all benefit from the network of services and support
that we provide. This
is an NIHR research infrastructure dataset and excludes the Research Delivery
Network (RDN). The dataset is accurate as of the end of the 2023/24 financial
year and is updated annually. It shows studies supported by the Applied Health
and Social Care Research Collaborations (ARCs), Biomedical Research Centres
(BRCs), Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs), Medtech and In vitro diagnostics
Co-operatives (MICs) and Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs). Projects
appear as duplicates if they have been reported by multiple Infrastructure
Centres in multiple years. Using this dataset, users can search for
projects that were supported by the abovementioned NIHR Infrastructure schemes
by financial year.
Please
note that this is not a complete dataset as commercially or otherwise sensitive
projects have been withheld from it. Additionally, this dataset has been
created to recognise the research infrastructure support that these studies
have received and therefore it does not contain information about the support
and funding received from other sources (e.g., other funding bodies or the life
sciences industry).