2025 news from CRD

Wednesday 10 December 2025

We are delighted to have been awarded an Athena Swan silver award following on from our bronze level award granted in 2020.

Thursday 4 December 2025

Experience of involving children and young people in a project designed to overcome data scarcity.

Monday 1 December 2025

Leading the drive to improve experience and outcomes of children undergoing cancer treatment.

Wednesday 25 June 2025

A systematic review and economic evaluation of anti-VEGF therapies for the management of diabetic retinopathy.

Monday 14 April 2025

CRD Research Fellow Ruth Walker presented her poster "Can adult evidence improve our understanding of treatment effect in children?" at the 2025 Children and Young People's Cancer Association (CCLG) conference in Birmingham.

Wednesday 9 April 2025

Prof Bob Phillips of CRD has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Members Award for his work developing, leading and editing the Archimedes section of the Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), the official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

Wednesday 12 March 2025

A new internationally developed clinical practice guideline recommends joyful eating during childhood cancer treatment. Yes, food needs to be safe, but there's limited value in the "neutropenic diet", an eating plan initially designed to prevent infection.

Friday 7 March 2025

Since 2011, PROSPERO, the world’s first prospective register of systematic reviews, has been registering systematic reviews relating to health and social care. Funded by the NIHR since inception, PROSPERO has been a thriving resource for over a decade. It has been instrumental in promoting transparency, helping safeguard against bias and unintended duplication and research waste. PROSPERO currently has over 325,000 registration records.

Tuesday 4 February 2025

CRD researcher Kerry Dwan was awarded the 2024 Peter Holmes Prize along with colleagues Laura Bonnett and Susanna Dodd (University of Liverpool) for the article “Clinical trials concocted for the classroom”. The aim of the award is to highlight excellence in motivating practical classroom activity.

Monday 6 January 2025

PROSPERO, which is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research in the UK has since 2011 provided researchers with a free, searchable, online platform for registrations of systematic review protocols with a direct health-related outcome. Registrations have increased year-on-year resulting in a substantial number of new protocols being submitted and published daily.