About One NIHR West Midlands

Connecting communities, infrastructure, organisations and expertise across the West Midlands to support NIHR’s mission to transform health and care research, for the health and wealth of our region and the wider UK.

Medical professionals in a meeting

Who are we?

One NIHR West Midlands brings together NIHR-funded research infrastructure across the region to strengthen collaboration, strategic alignment and shared impact.

Across the West Midlands, we host over 25 NIHR-funded research infrastructure that support early-stage, translational and applied health and care research. Together, this infrastructure provides access to specialist facilities, research expertise, a highly skilled research delivery workforce, and the systems and support needed to conduct high-quality research at scale.

By connecting NHS organisations, universities, local authorities and wider partners with our local communities, we support collective action across shared priorities. These include community engagement and involvement, research inclusion, commercial collaboration, and the development of research capacity and capability.

Through One NIHR West Midlands, we aim to make this regional research ecosystem more visible, connected and impactful, helping research better meet the needs of patients, the public, the health and care system, and the wider economy.

25+

NIHR-funded infrastructures across the region

NHS,

universities and local authorities working in partnership

Research

across the full lifecycle from discovery to delivery

Driving

impact for people, communities and economy regionally

NIHR infrastructure across the West Midlands

Explore the leading facilities and expertise that make up our region’s research ecosystem.

Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands

Biomedical Research Centre (Birmingham)

Biomedical Research Centre (Oxford Health)

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit

Birmingham, RAND and Cambridge rapid service evaluation centre (BRACE)

Blood & Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Precision Cellular Therapeutics

Clinical Research Facility

Commercial Delivery Research Centre

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre

Global Health Research Group on COPD in primary care in South America (Breathe Well South America)

Global Surgery Research Unit – Improving surgical outcomes

Health Data Research UK – Midlands Site

Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) with Sandwell City Council

Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Emergency Preparedness and Response

Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Public Health Genomics

HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) – Devices, Digital & Robotics

Insight West Midlands

Integrated Clinical Academic Training Programme

Maternities Disparities Consortium

Mental Health Mission – Midlands Centre of Excellence

NIHR SRMRC – Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre

Pandemic Pact

Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC)

PHRESH – Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST)

Research Delivery Network

Research Support Service (RSS)

ROSSINI-Platform – a ‘Basket Factorial MAMS’ Platform Trial in Surgical Site Infection

School for Public Health RESearch (PHRESH)

School for Social Care Research

West Midlands SDE