At the Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research we have strong areas of discovery science in subjects that include cancer; immunology, infection and inflammation; neuroscience, experimental psychology, oral health and disease and optometry.
Frontiers in discovery science
Cancer; immunology, infection and inflammation; neuroscience, experimental psychology, oral health and disease and optometry
Our research ranges from the study of how tumours grow, how cells can become damaged in disease and how the immune system fights infection (e.g. we are fascinated by the health potential of a unique cohort of patients we have identified who seem to be immune to hepatitis C) to the development, by our dental molecular biologists, of tissue engineering for tooth replacement.
The work of PIHR Discovery takes place across the University, but has a focus in our Plymouth health campus that includes the Derriford Research Facility, our new Brain Research and Imaging Centre (BRIC), Plymouth Science Park, and Derriford Hospital which is the largest regional hospital and a tertiary referral facility including the Major Trauma Centre for the peninsula.