In collaboration with PRA Health Sciences, the University Medical Centre Groningen starts a Clinical Research Unit to carry out new research among patients at an early stage. This collaboration, which is unique in Europe, means that critical data and research results for new and existing medications could be available earlier. The Clinical Research Unit is being build in the old Triade building on the Healthy Ageing Campus, close to the UMCG.

The collaboration between the UMCG and PRA Health Sciences in this new ‘Clinical Research Unit’ makes it possible to carry out early research among patients with various medical conditions who have to stay in a hospital. Patients can be approached for this during their treatment and can voluntarily decide to participate in a research with newly developed medication. Medicines can be tested at an early stage, allowing them to be developed more quickly.