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Health Data Research UK

Health Data Research UK (HDR-UK) is a national data science institute that was established in 2018, with expertise from all four nations of the UK represented across six Substantive Sites. HDR-UK has over £100M investment from multiple funders, supporting internationally leading data science to develop cutting-edge approaches that will address pressing health research challenges.

The HDR-UK Wales-Northern Ireland Substantive Site is a partnership between Swansea University (SU) and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), reflecting major complementary research strengths in both institutions in precision medicine, public health and informatics. The Northern Ireland component is led by Professor Mark Lawler, who is also the HDR-UK cancer data science strategy lead. Our philosophy is to promote interdisciplinary research in data science, bringing together diverse stakeholders to address significant health challenges.  We have brought together  researchers from three of QUB’s Global Research Institutes (GRIs), The Institute for Health Sciences (IHS), The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) and the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS). Over twenty-two group leaders from QUB are involved in HDR-UK Wales Northern Ireland (see list below).

QUB has invested significantly over the last five years to support health informatics and bioinformatics research within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences (MHLS) as well as the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). HDR-UK@Queen’s is embedded within a dynamic interdisciplinary environment across multiple sites; co-located with the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research (formerly CCRCB) Medical Bioinformatics Research Section (MBRS) in the Health Sciences Building and has dedicated space at the National Public Health Centre of Excellence Northern Ireland, while also engaging with ECIT and the Informatics Core Technology Unit. We are forging partnerships across multiple sectors (academia, industry, NHS, charities) to bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds, including computer science, life sciences, maths, medicine, public health and statistics. These inter-sectoral collaborations will ultimately deliver transformational research by connecting considerable public and private data resources, and by linking diverse expertise, in order to enhance healthcare outcomes.

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Prof Mark Lawler

Dr Ian Overton

Dr Jaine Blayney

Dr Darragh McArt

Dr Philip Dunne

Prof Helen Coleman

Prof Stuart Elborn

Prof Liam Heaney

Prof Frank Kee

Prof Richard Kennedy

Prof Dan Longley

Prof Adele Marshall

Prof Amy-Jayne McKnight

Dr Paul Miller

Prof Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

Prof Dermot O'Reilly

Dr Nick Orr

Prof Manuel Salto-Tellez

Dr Jose Sousa

Dr Richard Turkington

Prof Roger Woods 

 

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