This year marks the 10^th anniversary of the NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility (AHCRF).

AHCRF is one of 22 research facilities across the UK funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and one of two exclusively for paediatric patients. 

It’s an internationally important facility for experimental medicine and early phase research for children and young people, recruiting 10 first global, four first European and five first UK recruits to clinical trials since 2011. The facility has also supported the delivery of 150 studies in the past five years. 

With some of the UK’s leading experts in paediatrics and outstanding co-located facilities, the AHCRF prides itself on being child-centred and tailored for delivering safe, high-quality, complex and high intensity paediatric research in areas of unmet medical needs.

Watch the video featuring Dr Dan Hawcutt, Paediatric Clinical Pharmacologist and Clinical Lead for the AHCRF. He gives an overview of the AHCRF, including key successes when their research has contributed to producing new medicines to treat patients, and explains how the facility supports researchers to design and implement their studies, working with local and national collaborators to provide better safer medicines for children.

You can follow the AHCRF on Twitter @CRFalderhey or visit the website here.

And if you have a research idea you would like to discuss please email Operational Manager Matthew Bickerstaff, Matthew.Bickerstaff@alderhey.nhs.uk or Dr Hawcutt, Dan.Hawcutt@alderhey.nhs.uk