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The Donald Heath Research Programme comprises multidisciplinary research into pulmonary hypertension across the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Current projects include biomarker discovery, novel...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious medical condition which affects the blood vessels of people’s lungs. There are many different treatments available for PH which can improve the symptoms and therefore improve quality of life. Iloprost...

A new anti-inflammatory drug Nemiralisib is being developed by the pharmaceutical company GSK as a treatment for airways disease like COPD. An international clinical trial will look in particular at treatment of COPD exacerbations when people&rsqu...

This month we recruited the first UK patient to a study investigating MRI imaging methods in lung disease. The study will recruit people with drug-induced interstitial lung disease and is part of an EU Horizon 2020 funded programme (TRISTAN - Tran...

The ACTIF programme led by the Sheffield cystic fibrosis team in collaboration with academic partners is developing interventions to help people with cystic fibrosis adhere to their treatments, and also to assist clinicians in providing those trea...

A full list of research papers published by investigators in the Academic Directorate of Respiratory Medicine in 2017 is now avaialble on this website: please see http://www.lungsheffield.org/research/publications

Researchers at the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit and Clinical Research Facility are participating in a new study for people with a certain type of heart failure. Heart Failure with "Preserved Ejection Fraction" (HFPEF) is a common form...

The Health Research Authority have launched a new website, containing a range of useful information about planning and conducting clinical and health research in the NHS - see https://www.hra.nhs.uk/

The Health Research Authority and the government published a new policy framework for health and social care research in October 2017. The new guidelines replace separate Research Governance Frameworks in each UK country with a single se...

Prof David Kiely, Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has received a national research award from the NIHR Clinical Research Network and Royal College of Physicians, for his work in the development ...