School of Medicine
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Rheumatology

We are a group of highly collaborative clinical and non-clinical scientists advancing understanding of the causes and developing new ways of treating rheumatological conditions.  

Our aim is to deliver excellent science and clinical research together with people with lived experience of rheumatological conditions. We are delivering novel insights and pragmatic treatment for conditions across the life course and in diverse populations, including osteoarthritis, gout, CPPD disease, immune-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and musculoskeletal pain. These conditions represent the most common reasons for healthcare utilization in the NHS. Our studies range from preclinical modelling to randomised controlled mechanistic and efficacy trials. We link findings from real-world data (big-data research), research cohorts and biorepositories with deeply phenotyped cases. We embrace collaboration with patients, international academics and pharmaceutical industry.

Our research has informed national and international guidelines on osteoarthritis, gout, CPPD disease, and vaccination. We have combined multi-omics with deep clinical characterisation, linked gut microbiome to musculoskeletal disease, and defined how rheumatological and non-rheumatological conditions interact to define disease and disease management.

Our research has also informed the development of the teaching modules both for undergraduate (e.g. Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Study Design), as well as postgraduate students (e.g. Quantitative Evidence Synthesis).  We also provide excellent PhD training programs spanning from preclinical to clinical, and from epidemiology to development of a complex intervention, clinical trial and systematic review.  

Our research

Our research themes include:

Chronic Pain
 
Mechanistic and multi-omic studies
 
Lifestyle interventions
 
Digital Health
 
Longitudinal cohorts
 
Biorepositories
 
Inflammatory Diseases
 
Evidence based Medicine
 
Comorbidity and multimorbidity
 

School of Medicine

University of Nottingham
Medical School
Nottingham, NG7 2UH

Contacts: Call 0115 823 0031 ext.30031 or please see our 'contact us' page for further details