Faculty of Medical Sciences

Convocation Saturday 15th June 2013

Professor Chris Day, PVC FMS

Learning & Teaching

• All 4 UG programmes either filled their Quotas (Med/Dentistry) or increased home and international student numbers (Biomed/Psychology)

• NSS Scores all > 90%• High level of activity in recruitment/schools

engagement (Mini-Medical School, 6th Form Workshops, leading edge project) aimed at WP

• PGT and PGR both up by 17% (Internat’l by 13%)• PTES 93% satisfaction, PRES 85%

NSS outcomes 2012

Overall satisfactionMedicine 95%

Dentistry 97%

Psychology 93%*

Biomedical Sciences 100%

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Progress......

• 4th intake 118 (18 over target), 2013 applications up by ~50%

• Very positive GMC QA reports – first graduates in 2014

• Biomedical Sciences programme through MQA and now recruiting for 2013

• INTO/NUMed Foundation Programme going through University and Malaysian QA approval process for 2014 entry

Research

• New research awards continue to increase from £42M in 2009/10 to ~£75m in 2012/13

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Signal Research Successes

• Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research opened September 2012 (£5M) – only the 8th in UK

• MRC Neuromuscular Centre renewed (£5M)• 3 Wellcome Senior Investigators appointed (£2-3M)• Harrison awarded FMedSci (now have 17)• Bushby made an NIHR Senior Investigator (11/201 in Ncle)• Robinson and Adamson 2 of first 15 NIHR Professors• Multiple programme grants from EPSRC, MRC, CRUK,

ERC, BHF, Sir Jules Thorne Trust• Cyclotron Facility opened September 12• IoN extension (WT) opening June 2013

Engagement: Ageing SCT

• Societal challenge of Ageing led by: “Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age” (NICA)– Ageing research income ~ £22M in 12/13– Negotiating with MRC over establishing new MRC Unit in

Ageing– Now have 24 Teaching modules relevant to Ageing– Hosted 33 Business events this year – Biomedical Research Building opened by Sir Alan

Langlands on Campus for Ageing & Vitality in 2012

Engagement: NHS

• Clinical Research awards up ~ 3 fold in 12/13• Patient accrual in NIHR clinical trials (NuTH Trust

1st in the country for number of studies, 4th highest number of patients - ~13,000)

• NuTH Trust awarded 1 of only 4 Diagnostic Evaluation Centres (DEC ~ £1M) May 2013

• North East and Cumbria Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) 1 of 8 fully approved in May 2013 (£4.63M pa for 5 years)

Engagement: Commercial Sector

• 94 extant commercial partnerships • Established 3 new significant research

partnerships with Pharma – GSK - Fibrosis (with MRC and UCL) £5M– Astex - Cancer (with CRUK) £5M– Ariad - Leukaemia Trial £22M

• Business consortium established to develop Campus for Ageing and Vitality as a Science Park for Ageing

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Campus for Ageing and Vitality

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Engagement: donors

• £1M from the Barbour Trust to fund PhD studentships, intercalation and non clinical research fellowships

• £0.5M from the James Knott Trust in memory of Lord Ridley to be used to fund the Atrium Project

• £1M from the Reece Foundation to support the Centre for Translational Medicine. This is supporting the Institute of Neuroscience extension project

Times leading article: 14th August 2012

“....Newcastle, is a centre of advanced medical research.......... Tax incentives to create a British equivalent, in the NE, of the Mayo Clinic in the US might make Newcastle a byword for invisible export earnings in the same way as the City of London”