Research areas (A to Z)

A

• Adult long-term conditions and self care (nursing)
• Adult stem cells for connective tissue regeneration
• Adult stem cells for nerve transplant
• Active ageing (nursing)
• Ageing extracellular matrix (regenerative medicine)
• Ageing Research Network [Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA); Institute of Health Sciences]
• Airway diseases
• Arthritis
• Asthma and allergy
• Atherosclerotic renovascular disease: epidemiological studies
• Audiology and deafness
• Autoimmune and inflammatory disease genetic epidemiology

B

• Biochemical genetics
• BioHealth Informatics [Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics (NIBHI)]
• Biological sample research methodology (genomics)
• Biostatistics (health methodology)
• Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma
• Brain injury
• Brain-skin axis
• Breast biology (cancer)

C

• Cancer (various areas within or associated to the Faculty)
• Cardiovascular (medicine: research group)
• Cardiovascular bioimaging
• Cardiovascular biology
• Caries and diagnostic research
• Cell-cell interactions (regenerative medicine)
• Child and Adolescent Talk Research Unit (CHAT-RU)
• Child Health Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Max Planck Child Study Centre (language and communication)
• Children and young people's long-term conditions and self care (nursing)
• Chronic kidney disease: epidemiologic studies (genomics)
• Chronic kidney disease: genetic studies
• Chronic kidney disease: vascular calcification (genomics)
• Clinical and experimental pharmacology
• Clinical and health psychology
• Clinical cardiovascular medicine and diabetes
• Clinical craniofacial research
• Clinical neurogenetics
• Clinical neuroscience and language disorders (psychological sciences)
  
• Cognition and cognitive neuroscience
• Common disease genetics
• Comparative disease genomics and animal genetics
• Computer vision and cognitive systems computing (imaging)
• Connective tissue and ageing
• Craniofacial genetics

D

• Deafness
• (Social research with) Deaf people
• Dementia and ageing (nursing)
• Dental biomaterials and biomechanics
• Dentistry (School)
• Developmental genetics
• Developmental psychopathology
• Developmental biology (dentistry)
• Developmental Biomedicine (medicine: research group)
• Diabetology and nephrology (genomics)
• Diabetes (developmental biomedicine)
• Diabetes (maternal and fetal health)
• Diabetes and Obesity Research Network [DORN; Institute of Health Sciences]
• Drug delivery and pharmacokinetics
• Drug design and action
• Drug misuse [National Drug Evidence Centre (NDEC)]
• Drug usage and pharmacy practice

E

• Electrophysiology (cardiovascular)
• Endocrinology and diabetes
• Environmental epidemiology
• Environmental health
• Epidemiologic studies in chronic kidney disease
• Epidemiological studies in atherosclerotic renovascular disease
• Epidemiology of work related ill health (occupational and environmental health)
  includes THOR (The Health and Occupation Reporting) Network and THOR-gP Network
• Epithelial biology
• Evidence Synthesis Network (Institute of Health Sciences)

F

• Face recognition and visual processing (imaging)
• Fetal health
• Forensic mental health

G

• Gene and immunotherapy (cancer studies)
• Gene-environment interactions (occupational and environmental health)
• Gene-environment interactions in asthma and allergy (respiratory)
• Genetics studies in chronic kidney disease
• Genetic studies in Type 2 diabetes
• Genetic medicine
• Genetics and genomics
• Genito-urinary cancer
• Genetic epidemiology
• Genomics
• Glaucoma
• Glyco-oncology and angiogenesis
• Gynaecological oncology

H

• Hair follicle biology
• (History of) Health and social care
• Health and Work Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Health economics
• Health Inequalities Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Health methodology
• Health Sciences (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Health Sciences (medicine: research group)
• Health services research (dentistry)
• Health services research (gastrointestinal)
• Health services research in genetics
• Healthcare Workforce Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery
• Human pain (musculoskeletal)

I

• Imaging
• Imaging biomarkers and signal-based biomarkers
• Imaging in cancer
  
• Imaging in vascular disease
• Imaging neuroscience
• Imaging, Genomics and Proteomics (medicine: research group)
• Infection (respiratory)
• Infectious disease epidemiology (occupational and environmental health)
• Inflammation Sciences (medicine: research group)
• Interstitial lung disease and lung transplantation
• Intervertebral disc degeneration and musculoskeletal tissue regeneration
• Intracellular proteins (regenerative medicine)
• Intra-uterine growth restriction (maternal and fetal health)

J

K

L

• Language and communication
• Language disorders (psychological sciences)
• Leukaemia and lymphoma
• Long-term conditions and self care (nursing)
• Lung cancer (cancer studies)
• Lung cancer (respiratory)
• Lung disease and lung transplantation
• Lymphoma

M

• Maternal and fetal health
• Max Planck Child Study Centre (language and communication)
• Medicine (School)
• Mental health (nursing)
• Mental Health and Neurodegeneration (medicine: research group)
• UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery
• Midwifery and women's health
• Molecular diabetology and nephrology (genomics)
• Molecular mechanics (regenerative medicine)
• Mood disorders (mental health)
• Muscle reinnervation and prevention of atrophy (regenerative medicine)
• Musculoskeletal (medicine: research group)
• Musculoskeletal (imaging)
• Musculoskeletal Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Musculoskeletal tissue regeneration

N

• Nephrology
• Nerve injury and nerve regeneration
• Neurodegeneration
• Neurological and cognitive genetic epidemiology
• Neuro-oncology
• Neuroprotection and non-invasive imaging (regenerative medicine)
• Neuroscience (Research Institute)
• Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU)
• Neuroscience (imaging)
• Neuroscience (mental health)
• Neuroscience: clinical (psychological sciences)
• Neuroscience: cognition and cognitive (psychological sciences)
• Normal pregnancy
• UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery
• Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work (School)

O

• Occupational and environmental health
• Ocular genetics
• Old age psychiatry
• Ophthalmology (genetic medicine)
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery and the control of pain and anxiety
• Oral implants
• Oral radiology and imaging

P

• Paediatric, adolecent and young adult cancer
• Pain (musculoskeletal)
• Palliative care (nursing)
• Greater Manchester and Cheshire Supportive and Palliative Care Research Alliance (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Patient Safety Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Peripheral nerve injury and nerve regeneration
• Personal social services research
• PET methodology (imaging)
• Pharmacogenetics
• Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (School)
• Photobiology and nutrition (epithelial)
• Plastic surgery research (epithelial)
• Pre-eclampsia
• Pregnancy complications
• Pregnancy: normal
• Pregnancy problems in the real world
• Pre-term labour
• Primary care
• Primary care mental health
• Primary Care Mental Health Research Network (Institute of Health Sciences)
• Proteomics
• Psoriasis
• Psychiatry (mental health)
• Psychiatry in medicine
• Psychological Sciences (School)
• Psychology: clinical and health
  
• Psychopathology (mental health)
• Psychosis
• Public health (occupational and environmental health)
• Pulmonary imaging

Q

R

• Regenerative medicine
• Renal Biology (endocrinology and diabetes)
• Respiratory (medicine: research group)
• Retinal vascular disease (genetic medicine)

S

• Skin immune system
• Social care and population health
  
• Social research with Deaf people
• Stem cells (dentistry)
• Stem cell and leukaemia proteomics
• Stem cells in cardiovascular medicine
• Stem cells (adult) for nerve transplant (regenerative medicine)
• Suicide and forensic mental health
• Suicide prevention
• Systematic reviews (dentistry)

T

• Tackling pregnancy problems in the real world (maternal and fetal health)
• Targeted therapy and radiation oncology
• Tissue micro-mechanics (regenerative medicine)
• Transcriptomics and quantitative genomics
• Transgenic and disease models (cardiovascular)
• Trauma epidemiology includes the Trauma Audit and Research Network (occupational and environmental health)

U

V

• Vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease
• Vascular disease (imaging)
• Vascular biology (cardiovascular)

W

• Whole body clinical research (gastrointestinal)
• Women's health (School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work)
• Women's mental health

X

Y

Z