Description
The University of Nottingham is a leading research-intensive institution and a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group, a collective of 24 UK universities recognised for world-class research and academic excellence. As part of this group, Nottingham is firmly positioned within the UK’s top tier of research universities, with a strong international reputation for innovation, interdisciplinary research, and global collaboration. In terms of research performance, the university was ranked 7th in the UK for research power in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, with 100% of its research recognised internationally and a large proportion classed as world-leading or internationally excellent. In global rankings, the University of Nottingham consistently performs strongly, typically placed within the top 100 universities worldwide (e.g., around 97th globally and 17th in the UK in recent QS rankings) and within the top 20 UK universities overall. it is widely regarded as a large, research-led university with particular strengths in areas such as medicine, engineering, and interdisciplinary translational research.
Role with PROBE
We are providing several deeply phenotyped cohorts, mostly from lifestyle RCTs, along with a large biorepository of OA joint tissue samples.