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The ��Ī-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration (CG-TIC) combines University and GSK expertise in the science of the immune system, AI and clinical development with access to patients and their data provided by ��Ī University Hospitals.
GSK is investing more than £50 million in CG-TIC, further strengthening ��Ī’s position as Europe’s leading life sciences cluster.

GSK plc is making this investment to establish the ��Ī-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration (CG-TIC), a five-year collaboration with the ��Ī and ��Ī University Hospitals. The collaboration is focused on understanding the onset of a disease, its progression, how patients respond to therapies and on developing biomarkers for rapid diagnosis. Ultimately, the goal is to trial more effective, personalised medicines.

The collaboration will focus on kidney and respiratory diseases, both of which affect large numbers of people worldwide. Kidney disease is estimated to affect 850 million people (roughly 10% of the world’s population) (International Society of Nephrology) and chronic respiratory diseases around 545 million (The Lancet).

Many types of kidney disease remain poorly understood and treatments, where they exist, tend to have limited efficacy. Chronic kidney disease is particularly unpleasant and debilitating for patients, often leading to end-stage disease. Treatments such as transplant and dialysis involve complex medical regimes and frequent hospital visits, making effective prevention and treatment the aim.

To make progress in treating these challenging disease areas, CG-TIC will apply an array of new techniques, including the use of cutting-edge single cell technologies to characterise how genes are expressed in individual cells. AI and machine learning have a critical role to play in transforming how data is combined and interrogated.

Using these techniques, the ambition is to be able to initiate new studies and early phase trials of new therapies for a number of hard-to-treat diseases which affect the kidneys. The same techniques will be applied to respiratory diseases and findings will be shared across the disease areas potentially to help identify and share better treatments across these different targets.

Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, welcomed the collaboration: "The UK's life sciences industry is thriving, driving innovation and improving lives. This collaboration between GSK and the ��Ī demonstrates our country's leading research and development capabilities.

“By focusing on cutting-edge research and harnessing the power of AI, this has the potential to advance the treatment of immune-related diseases, which could benefit patients both here in the UK and internationally. It's a clear example of how collaboration between industry, academia, and healthcare can deliver tangible results and strengthen the UK's position in healthcare innovation."

Tony Wood, Chief Scientific Officer, GSK, added: “Collaboration is at the heart of scientific progress and is fundamental to how we do R&D at GSK. We’re excited to build on our existing work with the ��Ī to further this world-leading scientific and technological capability in the UK. By bringing together ��Ī’s expertise and our own internal capabilities, including understanding of the immune system and the use of AI to accelerate drug development, we have an opportunity to help patients struggling with complex disease.”

The aim of CG-TIC is to improve outcomes for patients and ��Ī provides a unique environment in which to involve them, with ��Ī University Hospitals playing a pivotal role in the collaboration and Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, a likely future partner.

Home to the hospitals and to much of the collaboration’s research activity, the ��Ī Biomedical Campus provides a unique environment where academia, industry and healthcare can come together and where human translational research is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) ��Ī Biomedical Research Centre.

Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of the ��Ī, said: “The University sits at the heart of Europe’s leading life sciences cluster, where excellent research and the NHS’s clinical resources combine with the talent generated by the many innovative bioscience companies that call ��Ī home. Through this very important collaboration with GSK, ��Ī will be able to drive economic growth for the UK while improving the health of people in this country and around the world.”

Roland Sinker, CEO of ��Ī University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, also welcomed the collaboration, saying: “We are very excited to be part of this important partnership, which is another example of ��Ī experts working together to develop transformational new therapies, and use existing ones more precisely, to improve outcomes for patients with chronic and debilitating conditions.”

The ��Ī-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration will be co-led by Nicolas Wisniacki, VP, Clinical Research Head, GSK (above left) and David Thomas, Professor of Renal Medicine, ��Ī and principal investigator at the ��Ī Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases.

The ambition of the partnership is to treat immune-related diseases more precisely with existing therapies and to rapidly develop new ones.

The UK's life sciences industry is thriving, driving innovation and improving lives. This collaboration between GSK and the ��Ī demonstrates our country's leading research and development capabilities.

Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

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David Thomas, Professor of Renal Medicine, ��Ī and Dr Nicolas Wisniacki, VP, Clinical Research Head, GSK

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