Our Strategic Plan 2015-2020

This strategy set out an innovative and translational research programme which, through strong academic partnerships based around our unique capabilities, delivered improvements in donor care and patient outcomes.

Strategic goals

Our strategic goals built upon these strengths and ensured that our research programme is world-leading and continued to bring about changes in patient and donor care. Please click below for more information about each goal.

Goal 1: To establish and ensure delivery of National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) objectives through partnership working

Goal 2: To enhance our programme of research in transfusion/transplantation microbiology and virology to maintain blood, tissue and organ safety

Goal 3: To deliver clinical trials to support patient blood management

Goal 4: To strengthen our position in the development, assessment and clinical delivery of regenerative medicine based therapies

Goal 5: To establish a Behavioural Research programme to identify behavioural change interventions which significantly increase donation and consent rates

Goal 6: To establish a Translational Data Science programme to build and exploit big data resources that deliver improvements to our services

Develop a Translational Data Science function by investing in people with the relevant quantitative interdisciplinary expertise for building and exploiting big data resources for donor and patient benefit.
Prioritise and deliver studies using these unique linkages e.g. applying genomics data to donor management and the identification of donor factors which predict component storage characteristics and post-treatment effects of transfusions and transplants.

Goal 7: To provide facilities and resources to support an innovative research agenda

Work with our academic partners to ensure that our scientists and clinicians are embedded within environments which facilitate the successful delivery of innovative research programmes.
Continue the practice of providing core funds to our Principal Investigators (PIs) through rolling workpackages prepared in conjunction with the Research Strategy Groups and approved by the R&D Committee.
Introduce a specific funding stream of up to £50,000 per project to support pilot and preliminary studies to help secure external grant funding.

Goal 8: To ensure that our workforce have the skills and expertise to deliver the R&D Programme

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