A team composed of five NHS Trusts, including Newcastle, has won the Health Data Research UK Team of the Year award for a Sprint Exemplar Project in Rare Diseases.

The team worked incredibly hard to collect and transfer the clinical data of NIHR BioResource volunteers to a secure computing cloud environment to be anonymised and made available for research. This initiative has the potential to transform health research and the understanding of rare genetic disorders.

Read the HDR UK news story about this achievement below: