Forever Keele Issue 10 | 2015 | Page 69

ONE YEAR APR MAY JUN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE THAT HAS BEEN AWARDED £3.5 MILLION KEELE’S LAW SCHOOL THAT ENABLES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO ASSIST LITIGANTS Keele is one of three partners in the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Regenerative Medicine that has been awarded £3.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council to further its research programmes in this globally important and fast-growing field of the healthcare industry. Regenerative Medicine has huge potential to revolutionise the sector and transform patients’ lives. It covers a wide range of therapies designed to enable damaged, diseased or defective skin, bone and other tissue, and even perhaps organs, to work normally again. One year on from the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, Tristram Hunt MP visits a pioneering scheme at Keele’s Law School that enables university students to assist litigants. The Community Legal Companion (CLC) scheme – part of the Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele project, CLOCK – involves training second and third year law students to act as intermediaries to assist access to legal services and provide practical assistance to litigants in person. RESEARCHERS AT KEELE ARE AWARDED A £1.93 MILLION NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANT A five year programme of research to develop a new treatment model for people with musculoskeletal problems in primary care, in which treatment will be tailored to patients risk of persistent pain and disability. Chief Investigator, NIHR Professor Nadine Foster in the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, pictured, said: Musculoskeletal problems represent the single largest group of chronic conditions for which patients consult their GPs.” Forever Keele 2015 | 69