Health needs we are tackling

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How can we improve clinical outcomes through earlier diagnosis and personalised treatment?

 

We are developing new diagnostic and precision medicine tools for identifying disease earlier and targeting treatments:

 

• Improving diagnosis: we are identifying new markers of early respiratory disease to improve diagnosis.

 

• Precision-medicine treatments:  we are developing ways to predict how patients with lung diseases or allergy will respond to medicines.

 

• Treating multiple conditions: we are targeting treatment to those with multiple conditions to improve outcomes, for example  by investigating the best treatment for someone with anxiety, obesity and severe asthma.

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We are also developing new strategies to predict, avoid and pre-emptively treat acute exacerbations (worsening of symptoms):

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• Predicting exacerbations: we are using new digital technologies to predict exacerbations.

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• Targeted treatment: we are developing patient-centred, rapid, targeted treatments for acute exacerbations – for example by using point-of-care tests to quickly find out what sub-type of a disease someone has.