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Submission link: Presentation Portal – Conference Partners

Poster categories:

Your poster abstract should relate to one of the following categories:

1. Outstanding leadership and inspiring others
   Demonstrating leadership skills, mentoring, teamwork, and initiating impactful programmes or projects that enhance research infrastructure, training, development, recruitment, and community engagement in experimental research.
2. Collaborative research
   Initiatives led by your infrastructure and developed through collaborations with other facilities, research infrastructures, communities, industry, and bespoke partnerships to achieve research outcomes unattainable by a single centre alone.
3. Science, technology and data
   Key scientific research supported by your infrastructure, focusing on novel science, impactful applications, technology development for research methodology, advancements in data science, medical technology, and experimental medicine for high-priority diseases or conditions.
4. Breaking down the barriers
   Removing obstacles to high-quality experimental medicine, for example by accelerating study set-up, empowering the workforce, enhancing research accessibility and relevance, increasing participant diversity, and addressing the health needs of local, regional, or national populations.
5. Innovation and Impact
   Implementing novel approaches in study design, practice, and initiatives that enhance research quality, safety, effectiveness, and measurable impact, including new trial designs and collaborative methods.

Assessment criteria:

The programme committee will assess all submissions and will use the following criteria in addition to the bullet points above for selection:

• Broadly connected to the conference theme, including posters submitted highlighting working across infrastructure and other key stakeholders.
• Relevance to the category selected.
• Potential for learning, application, or adoption.
• Evidence of achievement which is measurable and evidenced.
• Timeliness of the research/initiative.

If you’re interested in being part of the 2026 UKCRF Network Conference, please contact Sarah Meehan (email)

Thank you to Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre and Clinical Research Facility for hosting our 2025 Conference.