Industry
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford (OxBRC), is determined to make our partnership the best place in the world for health research, development and innovation. Our sponsor, the NIHR, has this as a UK wide objective which is set out in its ten-year Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004 – 2014.
The Department of Health has already developed joint working in research and innovation with industry through the Pharmaceutical Industry Competitiveness Task Force (PICTF), the Bioscience Innovation and Growth Team (BIGT), and the Healthcare Industries Task Force (HITF). Strategic dialogue with industry aimed at sustaining and growing the important contribution industry makes to the healthcare received by patients in the NHS, is conducted via the Ministerial Industry Strategy Group (MISG) and the Ministerial Medical Technology Strategy Group.
