Research Excellence (round 3)

A new centre will bring biomedical scientists and clinicians together with engineers, mathematicians and computational biologists to tackle the challenges of personalised healthcare. This matters because the current one-size-fits-all approach to medicine often fails. A treatment that works for one patient may be ineffective or harmful for another. Personalised healthcare aims to tailor prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to an individual’s genetic makeup, lifestyle, and environment. The centre will create the multidisciplinary teams needed to solve the complex problems this shift requires—problems that no single discipline can solve alone. If successful, the centre could accelerate the development of tools that help doctors predict which patients will respond to which treatments, reducing trial-and-error prescribing and improving outcomes. It will also engage patients and the public in discussions about the benefits and concerns of personalised medicine, ensuring that the technology develops with societal input. The funding will support postdoctoral salaries for multidisciplinary project teams, workshops and hackathons to generate ideas, access to key technologies, education and public engagement activities, and a part-time centre manager and administrator.