Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health delivers a truly translational approach to the life sciences, from pure discovery science through to clinical application and patient care.
We develop and deliver the highest quality education and training for health professionals and life scientists in partnership with the NHS and industry, contributing to the University's tradition of innovation and improvements in the health of people around the world.
The integration of discovery biology, clinical application and patient care within a single Faculty, particularly in a region with notable health inequality, provides us with a real opportunity to have a very significant and positive impact on people's lives.
Research within the Faculty
We conduct outstanding, world-leading research in the biological, medical and health sciences. We were ranked 2nd in the UK in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise for our research in the areas of the allied health professions, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy, and 4th nationally for research power in the biological sciences .
REF 2021 reflects the Faculty’s improvements in research quality and strength across all our Units of Assessment since the last assessment in 2014.
Read more about our research impact.
Research within our Schools
We have a diverse range of research activity and groups based with the Faculty's three Schools.
School of Biological Sciences:
- Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Function
- Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences
- Division of Neuroscience
School of Medical Sciences:
- Division of Cancer Sciences
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Division of Dentistry
- Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine
- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology
- Division of Medical Education
School of Health Sciences:
- Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences
- Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
- Division of Pharmacy and Optometry
- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
- Division of Psychology and Mental Health
- Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience
Institutes and networks
The Faculty leads the following institutes and networks:
- Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
- Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology Research and Innovation
- Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation
- Manchester Regenerative Medicine Network
We also contribute to:
- Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
- Institute for Health Policy and Organisation
- Manchester Cancer Research Centre (MCRC)
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
Core research facilities
Find out more about our technology platforms.
Our researchers
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Kathryn Abel, MA MBBS FRCP FRCPsych PhD
- Division of Psychology & Mental Health (L5) - Clinical Professor of Psych Medicine
Person: Academic
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Sabu Abraham, MSc, PhD
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences (L5) - Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine
Person: Academic
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Catherine Adams, BSc, MSc, PhD, CertMRCSLT
- Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience (L5) - Honorary Senior Lecturer
Person: Academic
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ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD in a sample of Prison staff: A latent profile approach
Taylor, P., 30 Nov 2028, In: Journal Of Traumatic Stress.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Attention-guided hierarchical fusion U-Net for uncertainty-driven medical image segmentation
Munia, A. A., Abdar, M., Hasan, M., Jalali, M. S., Banerjee, B., Khosravi, A., Hossain, I., Fu, H. & Frangi, A. F., Mar 2025, In: Information Fusion. 115, 102719.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decline and fall of aging astrocytes: the human perspective
Verkhratsky, A. & Semyanov, A., Jun 2025, In: Neural Regeneration Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Depression, brain structure and socioeconomic status: A UK Biobank study
Johns, S., Lea-Carnall, C., Shryane, N. & Maharani, A., 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 368, p. 295-303Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children
Jensen, K., Rouvroye, L., Eiteljoerge, S. F. V., Lieven, E. V. M., Fe, E. & Pouscoulous, N., 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 249, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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Empowered Together
Forsyth, K. (PI), Gutridge, K. (CoI), Lennox, C. (CoI), Robinson, C. (CoI) & Shaw, J. (CoI)
1/10/24 → 30/09/29
Project: Research
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The STAR study: Specifying and Transforming our Approaches to managing Recurrent chronic musculoskeletal pain in children and young people
Hyrich, K. (PI), Lee, R. (CoI), Mcbeth, J. (CoI) & Peters, S. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/29
Project: Research
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An evolutionary study of head and neck cancer before during and following radiotherapy - DEC 23
Wedge, D. (PI) & Bristow, R. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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Accessible Results: enabling patients with diverse needs to access and understand their test results online
McMillan, B. (PI), Davidge, G. (CoI) & Sanders, C. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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Drug-repurposing thiazolidinediones for vascular dementia (award)
Huang, J. (PI), Jenkins, D. (CoI), Chen, L.-C. (CoI), Rutter, M. (CoI) & Cadar, D. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
Impacts
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Access to more effective therapies in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Illidge, T. (Corresponding participant), Radford, J. (Participant) & Honeychurch, J. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic
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Accurate in vitro prediction of in vivo genotoxicity and cancer hazard; reducing costs to industry and the use of animals in research
(Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant) & (Participant)
Impact: Economic impacts, Health impacts, Technological impacts
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Adjuvant therapy in melanoma adopted as standard of care
Lorigan, P. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing
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Advancing treatments for lysosomal storage disorders
Bigger, B. (Corresponding participant), Wynn, R. (Participant) & Jones, S. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic
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Affecting change of UK public health policy on vitamin D, sun exposure, skin cancer and vitamin D supplementation 2013-20
Webb, A. (Participant) & Rhodes, L. (Participant)
Impact: Society and culture, Health and wellbeing, Economic, Policy
Activities
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Integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomic data to understand the response of adipose tissue to parasitic infection
Sinton, M. (Speaker)
29 Jan 2025 → 30 Jan 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
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The Wellcome Trust (External organisation)
Hager, R. (Academic expert member)
2025 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review panel › Research
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Caldwell Memorial Lecture "Using antibiotics sustainably"
Thompson, W. (Invited speaker)
6 Dec 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Teaching and Research
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WHO global oral health meeting
Thompson, W. (Chair)
26 Nov 2024 → 29 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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FDI Webinar: Bridging gaps in dental antimicrobial stewardship: From research to real-world application
Thompson, W. (Speaker)
20 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Datasets
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EnsemblUTA
Causey-Freeman, P. (Creator), GitHub, 2019
https://github.com/biocommons/uta/tree/master/misc/EnsemblUTA
Dataset
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VariantFormatter
Causey-Freeman, P. (Creator), GitHub, 2019
https://github.com/openvar/variantFormatter
Dataset
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Human Embryonic Multi-tissue ChIP-seq (Manchester)
Gerrard, D. (Creator), Hanley, N. (Owner) & Jennings, R. (Data Manager), The European Genome-phenome Archive, 2019
https://ega-archive.org/datasets/EGAD00001004335
Dataset
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Direct speech quotations promote low relative-clause attachment in silent reading of English
Yao, B. (Creator), UK Data Service, 2018
DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-853105, http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853105/
Dataset
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CLUSTER MTX clinical dataset
Lawson-Tovey, S. (Creator) & Ng, S. (Creator), CLUSTER consortium, 14 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7639899, https://zenodo.org/record/7639899
Dataset
Prizes
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1. Poster Prize at the GAB for Krzok, Nobis-Bosch, Willmes & Abel (2014)
Abel, S. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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1st Annual Brady Award for Resident Research, Joint Oncology Program. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Bristow, R. (Recipient), 1996
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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1st Prize at ISBI 2015 Grand Challenges in Dental X-ray Image Analysis
Lindner, C. (Recipient) & Cootes, T. (Recipient), Apr 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Academy of Social Sciences Election 24 Hub
5/05/24 → 18/11/24
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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Why are pharmacy technicians leaving? Factors contributing to turnover intention and strategies for retention.
Mcdermott, I. & Schafheutle, E.
13/11/24 → 14/11/24
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Reflections from the Julian Costello Award Winner 2024
14/11/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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Journal article showcases UK NSC workshop on risk stratification in breast screening
Wright, S., Payne, K. & Rogers, G.
5/11/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Student theses
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: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF REPORTED OUTCOMES IN VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS
Haseeb, F. (Author), Mathioudakis, A. (Supervisor) & Felton, T. (Supervisor), 1 Aug 2022Student thesis: Master of Philosophy
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3D anatomical modelling of the human cardiac conduction system
Atkinson, A. (Author), Dobrzynski, H. (Supervisor) & Boyett, M. (Supervisor), 3 Jan 2015Student thesis: Master of Philosophy
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3D Bioprinting Whole Intervertebral Discs to Understand Degeneration & Inform Regenerative Therapies
Kibble, M. (Author), Hoyland, J. (Supervisor), Richardson, S. (Supervisor) & Domingos, M. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2023Student thesis: Phd
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3-Dimensional SEM Studies of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum in Chicken Hearts
Newman, B. (Author), Shiels, H. (Supervisor) & Codd, J. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2016Student thesis: Master of Philosophy
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3D Printed Denture Materials: Key Aspects of their Physico-Mechanical and Biological Properties
Altarazi, A. (Author), Haider, J. (Supervisor), Devlin, H. (Supervisor) & Silikas, N. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2023Student thesis: Phd
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Equipment
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Biological Mass Spectrometry (BioMS) Facility
Knight, D. (Platform Lead), Warwood, S. (Senior Technical Specialist), Selley, J. (Technical Specialist), Taylor, G. (Technical Specialist), Fullwood, P. (Technical Specialist), Keevill, E.-J. (Senior Technician) & Allsey, J. (Technician)
FBMH Platform Sciences, Enabling Technologies & InfrastructureFacility/equipment: Facility
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Biomolecular Analysis Core Facility
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and HealthFacility/equipment: Facility