Being part of Corridor Manchester and the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care devolution (GMdevo) supports our vision to be recognised nationally and internationally as a centre for research and innovation. Corridor Manchester is home to a group of knowledge-intensive organisations and businesses operating in areas including health and higher education. The Corridor boasts:

Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF) specialises in early translational and experimental medicine (EM) research capability, responding to the developing needs of our regional communities.

We have one of the largest national study portfolios for a CRF, and this enables our patients to regularly be the first in the UK, and even the world to have the opportunity to trial new treatments.