About Us
The Facility
The NIHR St George’s Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is part of the NIHR and hosted by St George’s Hospital. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) St George's Clinical Research Facility (CRF) was established in September 2022 as a part of the NIHR infrastructure supporting Clinical Research in St Georges University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We are one of 6 new NIHR CRFS around the country and part of the 28 NIHR CRFs in the UK. The Clinical Research Facility provides staff and facilities to enable university and Trust researchers to offer and run high-quality clinical trials for our patients and volunteers, with a focus on early phase and translational research across several disease areas.
We also support, educate, and facilitate collaboration of the wider delivery research workforce across the Trust.
NIHR St Georges CRF is jointly led by Co-Directors Professor Daniel Forton, NHS Hepatology Consultant and Associate Medical Director for Research and Dr Catherine Cosgrove, NHS Infectious Disease Consultant and Adult Lead for the Vaccine Institute.
What being part of the NIHR means
NIHR Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs) support the delivery of early-phase and complex studies in purpose built facilities in NHS hospitals.
The NIHR has awarded £161 million over five years to 28 CRFs across England.
The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.
St George's Hospital Tooting
The Clinical Research Facility is located at the centre of St George' Hospital Tooting, which is a large acute hospital with over 9000 members of staff. We cover a wide range of specialties serving a diverse community of 1.3 million people. As a provider of many tertiary services, such as neurosciences, trauma, cancer and paediatric medicine, we also offer care for significant populations in Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
Joint Research and Enterprose Services
Our Joint Research and Enterprise Services (JRES) supports both St George’s Trust and University researchers to set up and manage their research. The CRF works closely with JRES, which helps to facilitate the research collaboration between St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University.
TACRI
The Translational and Clinical Research Institute (TACRI) is a joint virtual institute between St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & St. George's, University of London. TACRI supports researchers at all levels to plan, design and conduct clinical research by utilising the many clinical specialties and academic expertise championed by both organisations. Support available includes how to get started with research, advice, a statistical consultancy service, dedicated research groups and events to highlight the brilliant clinical research happening at St. George's.
Membership of TACRI is open to all medical, nursing, midwifery, and allied health professionals at either the Trust or the University. For more information and how to join TACRI, please visit the main website here.
