Jonathan Weber, Adnan Custovic, Debra Matich and Andrew Wolfson formally opened the Children’s Clinical Research Facility at St Mary’s Hospital
A research facility that aims to improve the quality of life, treatment and care for children with complex diseases formally opened this month. The Children's Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) was completed in 2018 and focuses on translational research in children with complex childhood diseases such as food allergy, asthma, sickle cell anaemia, hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), acute infections and sleep disordered breathing. The facility is based at St Mary's Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust , and is generously supported by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The UK has some of the highest prevalence rates of allergic conditions in the world, with over 20 per cent of the population affected by one or more allergic diseases such as asthma. Patients and staff from Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust recently gathered at St Mary's Hospital to celebrate the launch of the CCRF, learn more about the facility and tour the space. Professor Jonathan Weber, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Director of Imperial College Academic Health Science (AHSC), opened the facility at the event. He said: "The work of the CCRF is vital in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting children's health through adolescence to adulthood.
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