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Faculty of Medical Sciences Convocation Saturday 15 th June 2013 Professor Chris Day, PVC FMS. Learning & Teaching. All 4 UG programmes either filled their Quotas (Med/Dentistry) or increased home and international student numbers (Biomed/Psychology) NSS Scores all > 90%
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Faculty of Medical SciencesConvocation Saturday 15th June 2013Professor Chris Day, PVC FMS
Learning & Teaching • All 4 UG programmes either filled their Quotas (Med/Dentistry) or increased home and international student numbers (Biomed/Psychology) • NSS Scores all > 90% • High level of activity in recruitment/schools engagement (Mini-Medical School, 6th Form Workshops, leading edge project) aimed at WP • PGT and PGR both up by 17% (Internat’l by 13%) • PTES 93% satisfaction, PRES 85%
Progress...... • 4th intake 118 (18 over target), 2013 applications up by ~50% • Very positive GMC QA reports – first graduates in 2014 • Biomedical Sciences programme through MQA and now recruiting for 2013 • INTO/NUMed Foundation Programme going through University and Malaysian QA approval process for 2014 entry
Research • New research awards continue to increase from £42M in 2009/10 to ~£75m in 2012/13 ?
Signal Research Successes • Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research opened September 2012 (£5M) – only the 8th in UK • MRC Neuromuscular Centre renewed (£5M) • 3 Wellcome Senior Investigators appointed (£2-3M) • Harrison awarded FMedSci (now have 17) • Bushby made an NIHR Senior Investigator (11/201 in Ncle) • Robinson and Adamson 2 of first 15 NIHR Professors • Multiple programme grants from EPSRC, MRC, CRUK, ERC, BHF, Sir Jules Thorne Trust • Cyclotron Facility opened September 12 • IoN extension (WT) opening June 2013
Engagement: Ageing SCT • Societal challenge of Ageing led by: “Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age” (NICA) • Ageing research income ~ £22M in 12/13 • Negotiating with MRC over establishing new MRC Unit in Ageing • Now have 24 Teaching modules relevant to Ageing • Hosted 33 Business events this year • Biomedical Research Building opened by Sir Alan Langlands on Campus for Ageing & Vitality in 2012
Engagement: NHS • Clinical Research awards up ~ 3 fold in 12/13 • Patient accrual in NIHR clinical trials (NuTH Trust 1st in the country for number of studies, 4th highest number of patients - ~13,000) • NuTH Trust awarded 1 of only 4 Diagnostic Evaluation Centres (DEC ~ £1M) May 2013 • North East and Cumbria Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) 1 of 8 fully approved in May 2013 (£4.63M pa for 5 years)
Engagement: Commercial Sector • 94 extant commercial partnerships • Established 3 new significant research partnerships with Pharma • GSK - Fibrosis (with MRC and UCL) £5M • Astex - Cancer (with CRUK) £5M • Ariad - Leukaemia Trial £22M • Business consortium established to develop Campus for Ageing and Vitality as a Science Park for Ageing
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Engagement: donors • £1M from the Barbour Trust to fund PhD studentships, intercalation and non clinical research fellowships • £0.5M from the James Knott Trust in memory of Lord Ridley to be used to fund the Atrium Project • £1M from the Reece Foundation to support the Centre for Translational Medicine. This is supporting the Institute of Neuroscience extension project
Times leading article: 14th August 2012 “....Newcastle, is a centre of advanced medical research.......... Tax incentives to create a British equivalent, in the NE, of the Mayo Clinic in the US might make Newcastle a byword for invisible export earnings in the same way as the City of London”