Research Centres and Groups

The Academy of Primary Care combines excellence in education, research and scholarship to support and drive the redesign and delivery of the workforce, clinical care, and service design needed for 21st century primary care practice.

In order to ensure every person with cancer has the very best diagnosis, treatment and care, more research is needed. The Cancer Awareness, Screening and Diagnostic Pathways Research Group exists to support colleagues engaged in applied health cancer projects.

We manage undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in anatomy in both Hull and York and engage in cutting edge research in the evolution and biomechanics of musculoskeletal systems at York, through our staff who are embedded in PalaeoHub, within the Department of Archaeology.

The Centre for Atherothrombosis and Metabolic Disease ocuses on chronic conditions, including atherothrombosis, metabolic syndrome, infertility, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, that cause significant health risks or premature death.

The Centre for Health and Population Sciences is multidisciplinary, specialising in clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics, health services research, medicine and psychology.

A partnership between Hull York Medical School and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we work in collaboration – sharing knowledge and expertise and working with patients to understand the impact of disease on their daily lives – and developing new interventions and treatments to improve the diagnosis treatment and care of their conditions.

We offer exceptional support on the design, delivery and analysis of your research, so you can conduct research of the highest quality and impact.

Our research ranges from basic molecular and cellular medicine to pre-clinical and clinical studies. With a predominant focus on immunology and infection and neuroscience research, our research is a key component of the York Biomedical Research Institute.

The Health Professions Education Unit brings together the scholarship of those engaged in teaching and education development at Hull York Medical School.

The group is focused on the care of people with addictions or mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar illness, as well as on prevention.

The Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre helps people with life-limiting illnesses live as well as they can, and, when the time comes, give them control of symptoms and courage as they die.