The Healing Foundation Centre for Burns Research will look at understanding how the body responds to burn injury and developing new treatments for repair.
The centre, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, is a partnership between University Hospitals Birmingham, the University of Birmingham, Ministry of Defence, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, University College London and the Royal Free Hospital in London. It is part of the ‘Burns Collective’ (a Healing Foundation Initiative) which also supports the Bristol Centre for Children’s Burns Research. The Birmingham centre is supported by Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) and funded for five years with £1.5 m investment from the Healing Foundation and funds from partner organisations of £4.5 m. As well as improving understanding of the biological processes of burns in adults and children, the centre will carry out translational clinical research to test the feasibility of larger trials. The findings will contribute to an increased understanding of the most serious clinical outcomes of burn injuries, such as multiple organ failure.
