About Us
Transforming Health
Our research agenda is driven by an ambition to lead in developing new approaches in healthcare that have an international impact in medical practice, inspired by the clinical needs we see from day to day in our hospitals and clinics.
We aim to transform people's perceptions of their own health and their healthcare. We are firmly rooted in the North East of England, its culture, and its people. With their enthusiastic support we have been able to build a research and teaching facility that is now among the best in the world.
The transforming health agenda informs our areas of focus and our structure. Research teams work together across traditional disciplinary divides. In this way we are able to integrate different and complementary skills to accelerate progress towards therapies that cure disease rather than manage its progression.
It is not unusual for our clinicians and research scientists to work with geographers, sociologists, engineers and economists in order to improve quality of life.
