Tangible impacts on health

By working with our communities, we expect to contribute to discoveries with tangible impacts on health.

Anke Ehlers: Overcoming anxiety and trauma with cognitive behavioural therapies
Professor Ehlers has developed cognitive behavioural therapies for anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder. Having produced models of the factors involved in maintaining the disorders, she has developed psychological treatments that have been shown to be more effective than other therapies and/or drugs.
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Prime-boost vaccines against tuberculosis
Dr Helen McShane has developed the first vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis to be taken to clinical trial since BCG in 1921.
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Understanding risk factors for diabetes in India
Professor Caroline Fall is working with Indian scientists to establish the risk factors for diabetes in the Indian population and to find ways to tackle this growing problem.
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Developing a cognitive therapy for insomnia
Dr Allison Harvey's studies of the cognitive processes that establish and maintain insomnia have led to a new therapy.
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Tackling malaria with biopesticides
Professor Andrew Read and Dr Matt Thomas have shown that a fungus can be used a biopesticide against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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Developing a targeted therapy for multiple sclerosis
Professor David Wraith's spin-out company Apitope is developing therapeutic peptides for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
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The genetic basis of diabetes: improving treatment for patients
Research by Professor Andrew Hattersley and colleagues has led to the replacement of insulin injections with tablets for some diabetic patients.
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MySkin™: wound closure technology
A team at the University of Sheffield has developed 'living bandages' for the treatment of burns and chronic wounds.
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Professor Christopher Fairburn: Understanding and treating eating disorders
Professor Fairburn's cognitive behaviour therapies for eating disorders have been recognised by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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Professor Brian Spratt: Multilocus sequence typing
Professor Spratt and colleagues developed the technique of multilocus sequence typing, which has a wide range of clinical and public health applications.
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