Patient Centric
Ensure the voice of people with RMDs are included in all our research.
Our Specific Aims and Overarching Principles
The UK Musculoskeletal Translational Research Collaboration's overarching principles
Transparency
Ensure a trusting and transparent working environment to encourage member engagement
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Embed a culture that promotes inclusivity and diversity
Our Aims
Accelerate high impact, national trials
- Establish a nationally set strategy and priorities of RMDs
- Promote innovative experimental studies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of RMDs
Improve national capability and connect infrastructure for efficient delivery of research
- Deliver experimental studies through efficient utilisation of shared infrastructure resources and platforms
- Foster collaboration based on shared expertise
- Engage with research partners, such as industry and other research charities, and leverage funding
Enhance national networks
- Build academic capability, capacity, and leadership
- Attract early industry engagement to develop meaningful experimental studies
- Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, embedded within a value-driven culture of the TRC