# \(NU/1824\) The Provision of Clinical Research Support & Central Laboratory Services for the ADVANCE Study

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Newcastle University](/buyers/newcastle-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: ICON Clinical Research Ltd
- Award value: £2,002,000
- Tender value: £2,002,200
- Award date: 30 August 2023
- Published: 4 October 2023
- Contract start: 29 September 2023
- Contract end: 15 May 2028
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 2038a9d9-a190-485b-ba95-4511aa9a5644-686154
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-9533e01f-2348-4ac8-b09b-e59daf393014

## Description

The Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute is one of three research institutes established in 2019 following a restructure within the Faculty of Medical Sciences\. Its members map across the biomedical research landscape\. A number of major research projects are led from within the Institute including the "NASH Disease Translational Accelerator" \(NASH-DTA\) project\. This project funded brings together clinicians and scientists from prominent academic centres across Europe and industrial partners to conduct research into advanced liver disease/cirrhosis caused by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease \(NAFLD\)\. Their common goals are developing, validating and qualifying better biomarkers for NAFLD\. Strongly associated with the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes that are testing healthcare systems worldwide, NAFLD is an increasingly common cause of advanced liver disease that is characterized by substantial inter-patient variability in severity and rate of progression\. Biomarkers under investigation in the project include genes that contribute to NAFLD progression\. The purpose of this tender process is to engage a supplier to provide clinical research support, central laboratory services and to oversee biological sample transfers and provide centralised laboratory processing of biological samples collected during the course of the study\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2038a9d9-a190-485b-ba95-4511aa9a5644-686154)