Faculty of Medical Sciences Convocation Saturday 15 th June 2013 Professor Chris Day, PVC FMS

Learning & Teaching All 4 UG programmes either filled their Quotas (Med/Dentistry) or increased home and international student numbers (Biomed/Psychology) NSS Scores all > 90% High level of activity in recruitment/schools engagement (Mini-Medical School, 6 th Form Workshops, leading edge project) aimed at  WP PGT and PGR both up by 17% (Internat’l by 13%) PTES 93% satisfaction, PRES 85%

NSS outcomes 2012 Overall satisfaction Medicine95% Dentistry97% Psychology93%* Biomedical Sciences100%

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Progress th intake 118 (18 over target), 2013 applications up by ~50% Very positive GMC QA reports – first graduates in 2014 Biomedical Sciences programme through MQA and now recruiting for 2013 INTO/NUMed Foundation Programme going through University and Malaysian QA approval process for 2014 entry

Research New research awards continue to increase from £42M in 2009/10 to ~£75m in 2012/13 ?

Signal Research Successes Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research opened September 2012 (£5M) – only the 8 th in UK MRC Neuromuscular Centre renewed (£5M) 3 Wellcome Senior Investigators appointed (£2-3M) Harrison awarded FMedSci (now have 17) Bushby made an NIHR Senior Investigator (11/201 in Ncle) Robinson and Adamson 2 of first 15 NIHR Professors Multiple programme grants from EPSRC, MRC, CRUK, ERC, BHF, Sir Jules Thorne Trust Cyclotron Facility opened September 12 IoN extension (WT) opening June 2013

Engagement: Ageing SCT Societal challenge of Ageing led by: “Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age” (NICA) –Ageing research income  ~ £22M in 12/13 –Negotiating with MRC over establishing new MRC Unit in Ageing –Now have 24 Teaching modules relevant to Ageing –Hosted 33 Business events this year –Biomedical Research Building opened by Sir Alan Langlands on Campus for Ageing & Vitality in 2012

Engagement: NHS Clinical Research awards up ~ 3 fold in 12/13 Patient accrual in NIHR clinical trials  (NuTH Trust 1 st in the country for number of studies, 4 th highest number of patients - ~13,000) NuTH Trust awarded 1 of only 4 Diagnostic Evaluation Centres (DEC ~ £1M) May 2013 North East and Cumbria Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) 1 of 8 fully approved in May 2013 (£4.63M pa for 5 years)

Engagement: Commercial Sector 94 extant commercial partnerships Established 3 new significant research partnerships with Pharma –GSK - Fibrosis (with MRC and UCL) £5M –Astex - Cancer (with CRUK) £5M –Ariad - Leukaemia Trial £22M Business consortium established to develop Campus for Ageing and Vitality as a Science Park for Ageing

13 of 17 Campus for Ageing and Vitality Retail Quarter Business & Engagement Quarter Academic Quarter Clinical Quarter

Engagement: donors £1M from the Barbour Trust to fund PhD studentships, intercalation and non clinical research fellowships £0.5M from the James Knott Trust in memory of Lord Ridley to be used to fund the Atrium Project £1M from the Reece Foundation to support the Centre for Translational Medicine. This is supporting the Institute of Neuroscience extension project

Times leading article: 14 th August 2012 “.... Newcastle, is a centre of advanced medical research Tax incentives to create a British equivalent, in the NE, of the Mayo Clinic in the US might make Newcastle a byword for invisible export earnings in the same way as the City of London”