About us
At YBRI, we unite innovative, fundamental, and translational research to drive biomedical breakthroughs with real-world impact. Through close collaboration with clinicians and industry partners, we accelerate the development of new therapies and diagnostics - ensuring our discoveries improve patient lives locally, nationally, and globally.
Professor Ian Hitchcock, Director of the York Biomedical Research Institute
YBRI strategy
Our mission is to advance discoveries in biomedical sciences; to inspire, train and mentor the next generation of biomedical researchers; and to understand disease processes to positively impact health and wellbeing. We are tackling this by engaging with and pursuing multidisciplinary discovery biomedical science in a multitude of areas, ranging from molecular mechanisms to patient-based studies.
We aspire to construct collaborative networks and bring together a critical mass of biomedical researchers in York to grow innovative fundamental, experimental and translational multi-disciplinary research in the biomedical and clinical sciences.
Our values
We are led by our core values:
- Interdisciplinary: To combine expertise of multiple disciplines and technologies, thinking across boundaries
- Collaboration: To work together with internal and external partners to achieve common goals
- Excellence: To produce quality, innovative science
- Integrity: To follow the highest standards of scientific integrity in data capture, analysis and sharing
- Delivery: To produce outputs that make an impact on human health and wellbeing
Our research
Our research spans three main disease pillars:
- Infection
- Cancer
- Brain Health
and three cross-cutting themes:
- Immunity
- Molecular Mechanisms and Tools
- Biomedical and Healthcare Technologies