About the Centre
The Biomedical Research Centre has been established for 12 years. We have over 50 postgraduate students enrolled on MPhil/PhD programmes, as well as a number of postdoctoral research assistants. This provides an active and stimulating research environment.
BMRC staff work in collaboration with UK and international scientists as well as clinical colleagues at a number of UK hospitals. Staff and postgraduate students are encouraged and supported to present their latest research findings at national and international conferences.
We have a broad range of facilities including
- Q-TOF-MS with electrospray and imaging MALDI options along with LC and associated equipment for proteomic analysis
- single cell recording electrophysiology laboratory
- real time PCR
- flow cytometer with cell sorter
- cell culture facilities for bacterial and mammalian cells
- confocal microscopy suite
- DNA microarray scanner
- biacore facility
- Synapt
In the 2008 RAE assessment, the BMRC was submitted under Unit of Assessment 12 - Allied Health Professions and Studies - which included 21 staff from BMRC and eight from the Centre for Health and Social Care Research.
65 per cent of the research in the joint submission was considered to be internationally recognised. When measured by the quality of its research and weighted by the number of staff submitted in this unit of assessment, Sheffield Hallam University was rated as 16th out of the 42 post-92 universities who submitted (figure obtained from Research Professional). In terms of the publications submitted for consideration by the RAE panel, 75 per cent of these were of an international standard.
Evidence of the growth in research activity in the BMRC between RAE 2001 and RAE 2008 is the doubling of the number of staff returned in 2008 compared with 2001 and a three-fold increase in income. We currently have six postdoctoral researchers and50 PhD students in BMRC, with 33 successful PhD awards being made during the period 2001-8.
The Biomedical Research Centre is part of the University's Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, which also has four other research centres
- Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CHSCR)
- Centre for Sport and Exercise Science (CSES)
- Sports Industry Research Centre (SIRC)
- Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER)
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