Partnerships

We bring together a strong and internationally competitive consortium of partners with expertise in experimental medicine and related methodological support. This enables us to establish a robust platform for the delivery of “first-in-child” studies directed at novel therapeutic targets.

EATC4Children has multiple partnerships, including charities, industry, NHS trusts and philanthropic. These collaborations aim to maximise the impact of our research across the “life course” of our disease priority areas.

A “life course” approach to health aims to ensure people's well-being at all ages by addressing people's needs, ensuring access to health services, and safeguarding the human right to health throughout their lifetime.

Charity partners

• Alder Hey Children’s Charity
• Alder Hey Children’s Kidney Fund
• Behçet’s UK
• Behçet’s Syndrome Society
• CCAA Kids with Arthritis
• CRMO Foundation
• FAIR (Funding Autoimmune Research)
• Juvenile Arthritis Research
• Kidney Research UK
• LifeArc
• Lupus UK
• Myositis UK
• RAIISE
• Scleroderma and Raynaud’s UK
• Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children
• Vasculitis UK
• Versus Arthritis.

Philanthropic partners

• Hynd Family
• Parry Family Charitable Foundation.

Industry

• Merck
• Novartis
• Pfizer
• See our Industry section for more information.

NHS

• Multiple paediatric rheumatology and associated specialities across the UK
• NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility for Experimental Medicine.

Other

• European League Against Rheumatic Diseases (EULAR) and its Paediatric Committee
• European Network of Childhood Associates (ENCA)
• Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) and its Scientific Working Parties
• UK Paediatric Rheumatology Clinical Studies Group.

National academic partners

• BILAG Group and MRC MASTERPLAN Consortium
• MRC CLUSTER Consortium
• NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre and Paediatric Excellence Initiative
• NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre
• NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
• NIHR UK Musculoskeletal Translational Research Collaboration (MSK TRC)
• The Francis Crick Institute
• Wellcome Sanger Institute.

International academic partners

We have ongoing studies / collaborations with current active international partners in locations across the globe including: 

• European - Lyon, Utrecht, Genoa, Dresden, Würzburg, Berlin, Barcelona
• North American – Harvard, Pittsburgh, NIH, Iowa, Toronto
• Rest of World – Shanghai, Wuhan, Cape Town.