About us
The Torbay Medical Research Fund is an independent charitable fund that was set up in 1970 by local medical practitioners to encourage better health in Torbay through supporting local research. The Fund's instigators believed that investing in research meant investing in the future. Over 40 years later the Fund's focus remains on supporting medical, dental, health and care research that benefits the people of Torbay and South Devon. If you are a practitioner working within Torbay and South Devon with a research project in mind or are planning to present your findings to a conference, the Research Fund has funding streams for both. ...
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Call for research grant applications
Treating Crohn’s Disease with a Whole-Food Dietary Intervention
Impact of biologic therapies project awarded grant
Grant awarded for palliative care study
Torbay Medical Research Fund has part-funded a PHD, exploring what the end of life needs and preferences of older people living in the community are and if they change over time. The oldest old are more likely to have complex health needs, multiple illnesse...
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Research identifies the main risk factors for difficulty caring for the arm after a stroke
Torbay Medical Research Fund awarded Rhoda Allison a £48,541 grant to carry out a study to predict difficulty in caring for the arm after a stroke & develop a longitudinal profile of impairment & disability. The participants were stroke patients, id...
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Innovative podiatry research leads to major grant
Richard Collings was awarded £25,079 from the Torbay Medical Research Fund to investigate whether foot ulcer recurrence can be prevented in people with diabetes by using an in-shoe pressure measurement technology. Insoles are designed to reduce elevated pla...
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