AT-MDRG – Advanced Therapies Multi-Disciplinary Research Group
ATMP – Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product
ATiMP – Advanced Therapy Investigational Medicinal Product
ATTC – Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres
AWMGS – All Wales Medical Genomics Service
AWTTC – All Wales Therapeutics & Toxicology Centre
BRAIN Unit – Brain Repair & Intercranial Neurotherapeutics
CAR-T – Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cells
CCRH – Cardiff Cancer Research Hub
CGT – Cell and Gene Therapy
CI – Chief Investigator
CReST – Cancer Research Strategy for Wales
CRF – Clinical Research Facility
CRO – Clinical Research Organisation
CRTU – Clinical Research Treatment Unit
CTIMP – Clinical Trial of an Investigational Medicinal Product
CTR – Clinical Trials Research
CTRad – Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group
Dare UK – Data and Analytics Research Environments
Data-Can – The Health Data Research Hub
DIRI – Data Innovation Research Institute
ECMC Network – Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres
ECR – Early Career Researchers
ECSCRI – European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute
EMA – European Medicines Agency
EP – Early Phase
EPSRC – The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
GA4GH – Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
GMP – Good Manufacturing Practice
GPW – Genetic Partnership Wales
GTIMC – Gene Therapy Innovation Manufacturing Centre
HDR UK – Health Data Research UK
HER-2 – Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2
HCRW – Health and Care Research Wales
HTA – Human Tissue Authority
IMP – Investigational Medicinal Product
IDTH – Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Hub
JACIE – The Joint Accreditation ISCT-Europe & EBMT
JING – Junior Investigator Network Group
JRO – Joint Research Office
LSHW – Life Sciences Hub Wales
MCPCRC – Marie Curie Palliative Cancer Research Centre
MDI – Medicines Discovery Institute
MDRG – Multidisciplinary Research Group
MHRA – Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
ML – Machine Learning
mPAID – Multi-Parametric AI based Diagnostics
MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MW-ATTC – Midlands Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre
NCRI – National Cancer Research Institute
NDR – National Data Resource
NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NIHR – National Institute for Health and Care Research
NSCLC – Non-Small Cell lung carcinoma
NWJCC – NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
OMOP – Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership
PACU – Post-Anaesthetic Clinical Unit
PETIC – Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Centre
PI – Principal Investigator
PPI & E – Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement
PROMS – Patient Reported Outcomes Measures
PTC – Principal Treatment Centre
PTEN – Phosphatase TENsin Homolog
R&D – Research and Development
RT – Radiotherapy
SAIL – Secure Anonymised Information Linkage
SIURI – Systems Immunity Research Institute
SWBMT – South Wales Bone Marrow Transplant
TAP – Trials Acceleration Programme
TCR – T-Cell Receptor
TIL – Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocyte
TME – Tumour Microenvironment
TRE – Trusted Research Environment
UKCRC – UK Clinical Research Collaboration
WAHPN – All Wales Allied Health Professional and Nurse Cancer Research Network
WBS – Welsh Blood Service
WCB – Wales Cancer Bank
WCN – Wales Cancer Network
WCP – Welsh Clinical Portal
WCRC – Wales Cancer Research Centre
WCTC – Wales Cellular Therapy Consortium
WGP – Wales Gene Park