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.
- Celebrating Dr Kathryn Bamforth, first Graduate from the TMRF Fellowship ProgrammeCongratulations to Kathryn Bamforth, the first doctoral graduate from the fellowship programme funded by The Torbay Medical Research Fund (TMRF). The fellowship programme is an…
- Pilot study funded to understand experiences of using ROHKEA VRiTMiss Philippa Newton-Cross was awarded a TMRF grant in July 2025 towards her project titled Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): an exploration of the…
- Fund provides research grant towards ‘Building a brighter future’Torbay Hospital is 1 of 48 Trusts nationally that have been awarded funding to build a new state of the art hospital which supports…