NIHR Infrastructure Supported Projects Dataset

The NIHR invests significantly in centres of excellence,
collaborations, services and facilities to support research in England.
Collectively these form the NIHR research infrastructure. We award more than
£606 million of funding per year to world leading NHS organisations and
academic institutions with a proven, international track record in health and
care research. The funding awards are significant multi-million-pound
investments. Our significant and sustained research infrastructure funding
supports the country’s leading experts in world-class research organisations.NIHR research infrastructure funding provides a platform to
enable research, acting as a targeted and strategic investment to create an
environment where early stage and applied research can thrive. Our research
infrastructure provides research expertise, specialist facilities, a research
delivery workforce and support services which all help to support and deliver
the research we fund, and research funded by others. Research funded by UK
Research and Innovation (UKRI), medical research charities, the life sciences
industry (biopharmaceuticals, medtech, genomics, diagnostics and digital
health), and other relevant industries all benefit from the network of services
and support that we provide.This is an NIHR research infrastructure dataset and excludes
the Research Delivery Network (RDN). The dataset is accurate as of the end of
the 2024/25 financial year and is updated annually. It shows studies supported
by the Applied Health and Social Care Research Collaborations (ARCs),
Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs), Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs),
Medtech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operatives (MICs), Health Protection
Research Unit (HPRU), Healthtech Research Centres (HRCs) which have replaced MICs
from 2024/25 and Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs). Projects
appear as duplicates if they have been reported by multiple Infrastructure
Centres in multiple years. Using this dataset, users can search for
projects that were supported by the abovementioned NIHR Infrastructure schemes
by financial year. Please note that this is not a complete dataset as
commercially or otherwise sensitive projects have been withheld from it.
Additionally, this dataset has been created to recognise the research
infrastructure support that these studies have received and therefore it does
not contain information about the support and funding received from other
sources (e.g., other funding bodies or the life sciences industry).