Positive impact of our TRE

The wider impact our TRE continues to have, facilitating science and innovation.

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We have various academic and clinical collaborators and have generated considerable impact and value in the projects delivered. In 2022 CO-CONNECT was shortlisted for the MRC Impact Prize, and was critical in our understanding of Covid-19 and our public health response.

Partners

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HIC TRE has a proven track record with past and present project success with various peer-reviewed scientific publications, datasets and code published.

Some example projects include:

GRAIMatter: Guidelines and Resources for AI Model Access from TrusTEd Research environments

Cover image from the GRAIMatter Green Paper

A UK wide research team (University of Dundee, NHS Scotland, University of West of England, and members of the public) developed a set of recommendations for output checking AI models.

Our TRE was crucial to deliver the open-source toolsets for TREs to measure and implement disclosure control.

GRAIMatter green paper​

TREEHOOSE: Trusted Research Enclave for Hosting Open Original Science Exploration

Logo from the TREEHOOSE project, depicting a tree inside the outline of a house.

University of Dundee, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and members of the public created an open-source infrastructure-as-code toolkit.

This can be deployed in the public cloud for a safe, secure and scalable computing environment suitable for working with sensitive data.​

Alleviate

Text logo: Alleviate The Advanced Pain Discovery Platform (APDP) Data Hub

The Alleviate project is the pain data hub hosted on our TRE. This is a part of the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform a UK wide research team (University of Dundee, HDR UK, ADPD, and members of the public).

This work supports researchers to find and access datasets, whilst ensuring privacy and security. ​

Alleviate Advanced Pain Discovery Platform

General Medical Council (GMC)

Text logo: General Medical Council

The GMC are the independent regulator of doctors in the UK who along with the Medical Schools Council have funded the development of the UK Medical Education Database (UKMED).

This wealth of administrative data from across the UK aims to understand how doctors progress through their career, The GMC place pseudonymised data within our TRE where approved researchers work.

UK Medical Education Database (UKMED)