World class research
Acute Care Edinburgh are committed to research excellence. Our research encompasses a broad range of themes that span across acute care.
New funding to help understand how Covid-19 affects the most vulnerable
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Dr Kenneth Baillie has secured funding from the Medical Research Council to work in partnership with Professor Peter Openshaw.
The COVID-19 Research Group
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The EMERGE team has halted normal research activity, and is now collaborating with specialties and services across NHS Lothian to run a series of COVID-19 research studies and trials, under the collective term the ‘COVID-19 Research Group’.
Multimorbidity and Emergency Healthcare Provision: Improving Care through Data Driven Innovation
![Dr Nazir Lone](https://www.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/panel_breakpoints_theme_uoe_mobile_1x/public/thumbnails/image/naz_lone_900x400.jpg?itok=ue1Cglco)
Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund.
Diagnostic accuracy study of a MALDI-MS biomarker of acute kidney injury after fractured neck of femur surgery.
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Funder: Chief Scientists Office. Value: £34,997
Maternal critical care: identifying at-risk women and understanding the short and long term consequences of critical illness in pregnant or recently pregnant women.
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Funder: Obstetric Anaesthesia Association. Value: £48,262
Does activation of the endothelin system promote the transition of acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease?
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Funder: MRC. Value: £657,856.00