Wessex Experimental Medicine Network (WEMN) expands the world-class work of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre right across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Dorset. 

The network mirrors the Centre’s current research themes or evolving new areas of experimental medicine expertise. The current themes are:

•    Nutrition, Lifestyle and Metabolism
•    Respiratory and Allergy
•    Data, Health and Society
•    Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
•    Perioperative and Critical Care 

Underpinning these themes is the urgent need to improve health and quality-of-life by enhancing our bodily resilience to:

•    Disease
•    Injury
•    Ageing 

Partnership working is critical to our success and the network is supported by Wessex Health Partners. By working together, the strategic alliance ensures experimental medicine activity rolls out across ten NHS organisations,  four universities and Health Innovation Wessex, vastly opening up access to experimental medicine for researchers and patients alike. 

With the help of Wessex Health Partners, we are working closely with NHS Dorset and NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight to ensure our extended work focuses on local health needs and transforms services and treatments at ground level. 

We have developed a funding call to support new collaborations which focus their activities on experimental medicine , with a view to attracting further external funding into the region. 

We are keen to open up access to our BRC to help with the  development of skills and careers across the region. We are also offering shared learning through our weekly BRC Science Forum and we will be running network events including workshops, symposia or forums. 

For more information please email WEMN@uhs.nhs.uk.