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Barts Life Sciences’ Barts Health Futures hub featured on the BBC

Could these young people from East London be the future faces of our NHS? Barts Health NHS Trust is delivering workshops, as part of Barts Charity-funded Healthcare Horizons, to 17 and 18-year-olds across schools in east London to provide an insight into NHS trauma services. The initiative aims to improve access and entry into health careers, particularly for those in...

Barts Health researchers show nasal spray can prevent Covid-19

Newly published results from a clinical trial led by Barts Health and Queen Mary University of London researchers show that a nasal spray (pHOXWELL) can reduce infection with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) by 62%. The trial was carried out in India between April to July 2021, the peak surge of the highly infectious Delta variant. It involved 556 participants...

Are you a talented administrator? Barts Life Sciences is recruiting

Barts Life Sciences is recruiting for an administrator to provide comprehensive and proactive administrative and secretarial support to Barts Life Sciences and ensure the smooth running of the Barts Life Sciences office. Launched in 2018, Barts Life Sciences is a powerful partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. It brings world-leading researchers, scientists, clinicians and...

Are you a talented technical architect? Barts Life Sciences precision medicine team is recruiting:

Barts Life Sciences is recruiting a cloud technical architect to help develop and implement an exciting initiative to find new and personalised ways to treat patients. The successful candidate will have: Significant experience of designing and deploying cloud solution/enterprise architecture within large scale technical projects and programmes in an organisation that uses a structured design methodology. Experience managing or using...

Barts Life Sciences CAP-AI workshop – An insight into SMEs partnering with the NHS

Places are now available for a workshop run by Barts Life Sciences, Clinithink and UCLPartners: Barts Life Sciences’ CAP-AI programme would like to invite you to an exciting event we will be running: “An insight into SMEs partnering with the NHS”.    This talk is aimed at start-ups and industry, academics, clinicians, and anyone who is looking to learn a...

The Whitechapel Road Life Sciences Cluster – a unique opportunity to acquire a 3.5 acre development in the heart of Whitechapel

The Whitechapel Road Life Sciences Cluster presents an opportunity to acquire a unique freehold 3.4 acre development site with potential to deliver a major commercial life sciences masterplan development in the heart of Whitechapel. The site is located amongst established health, research and academic facilities, including the Royal London Hospital, the Royal London Dental Hospital and Queen Mary University of...

International Clinical Trials Week – How Barts Life Sciences supports clinical trials

Ahead of International Clinical Trials Day, Gretchen Ladish, programme manager for Barts Life Sciences, tells us about the partnership and how it supported clinical trials during Covid-19. “Barts Life Sciences is a powerful partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University. Our vision is to support and carry out innovative, world-leading research and development in a safe way. “We...

Barts Life Sciences Research Data Scientist talks about her work during the pandemic

“To me, it’s fascinating and vital to the future of healthcare” In the lead-up to International Clinical Trials Day, Sophie Williams, PhD, talks about how her work as a data researcher in Barts Life Sciences helped in the fight against Covid-19. “At the beginning of the pandemic, there was an incredible demand from everyone – those working in healthcare, the public...

Are you a talented data scientist? Barts Cancer Institute is recruiting:

About the Role Applications are sought for a Tissue Bank Data Scientist to lead on development of health informatics system of the Operational Centre (OC) in the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Tissue Bank. The successful applicant will have solid understanding and supporting of clinical terminology and classifications such as SNOMED CT, ICD and HPO. The research will be based within...

Barts Life Sciences Precision Medicine Programme is recruiting for a technical architect

Barts Life Sciences is recruiting a technical architect to help develop and implement and exciting initiative to find new and personalised ways to treat patients. The successful candidate will have: Significant experience of designing and deploying cloud solution/enterprise architecture within large scale technical projects and programmes in an organisation that uses a structured design methodology. Experience managing or supporting the...