Recent Research
In June 2012 Wales' first research centre dedicated to developing new drugs and treatments to ease the pain and suffering of arthritis sufferers was unveiled. The Arthritis Research UK Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre (CREATE), based in the University’s School of Medicine, will work alongside volunteer patients from Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board, to test drugs used in other conditions to help treat around 50 South Wales patients with rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis.
Other research news:
- Professor Colin Dayan of the Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine is also to coordinate a major diabetes study with 6 million Euro funding (subject to final confirmation) from the EU's FP7 programme.
- Cardiff University scientists found that ‘hijacking’ cells in the body that normally attack common infections to target cancer instead could offer the body a ready-made army against the killer disease.
- Researchers within the school of Medicine are set to play a key role in a newly launched multi-national MID-Frail Study which will focus on frail older people with diabetes.
- Researchers based at the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, together with collaborators at the University of Sheffield, are set to investigate ways to improve the treatment and survival rate of elderly patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Researchers from Cardiff University and King’s College London have discovered new evidence which it is hoped could eventually help diagnose and prevent type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes discovery by Cardiff University and King's College.
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