Imperial Clinical Research Facility was featured on the BBC TV show Horizon: Why Are We Getting So Fat? Dr Giles Yeo investigates obesity in the UK. Many people believe that if people could just ‘eat less’, the obesity problem would be…
Help Make History today The Imperial Clinical Research Facility at Hammersmith Hospital is recruiting Healthy volunteers to take part in Clinical Trials for HIV Vaccine Studies. We are looking for HIV Negative volunteers who are going to be available for…
One of the most popular and exciting studies that was conducted in Imperial CRF this year is now published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition with the senior author being Dr Garry Frost. The study “Increased colonic propionate reduces…
Imperial CRF are bringing you an exciting update from our study Kiss IVF with Professor Waljit Dhillo. Professor Dhillo’s research suggests that kisspeptin will prevent ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). Infertility affects 1 in 6 couples in the UK, which is estimated…
One of Imperial CRF’s studies called Psilodep Pilot with Professor David J Nutt as the Principal Investigator has recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal 2016. The study titled “Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: an open-label feasibility study” recruited 12…
International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated around the world on or near the 20th May each year, to commemorate the day that James Lind started a famous trial on the deadly disease scurvy way back in 1747. International Clinical Trials…
On a wonderfully sunny Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th May 2016 Imperial Clinical Research Facility attended the Imperial Science Festival in South Kensington with the stand ‘Fun With Vaccines’. The purpose of this stand was to highlight what vaccine clinical…
NIHR/Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical Research Facility is happy to share the news that our LSD-fMRI/MEG study has been recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper reveals the findings from the healthy volunteer study that ran in…
The NIHR/Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical Research Facility has fully recruited to the Malaria vaccine trial, VAC053. The last volunteer recruited was vaccinated last week to complete recruitment. A total of 24 volunteers were recruited between the Imperial CRF and Jenner…
The NIHR/Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical Research Facility (CRF) last week welcomed the enrolment of the first patient in a phase 1/2 trial which is studying a new approach to the therapy of haemophilia A using gene therapy. The investigational gene…
