Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow Professor Adam Croft has been appointed as the new Versus Arthritis Chair of Rheumatology and Head of the Rheumatology Research group at the University of Birmingham. The appointment recognises Professor Croft’s wealth of experience in...

The Kennedy Trust launched its Research Ignition Awards in 2023, with the aim of pump-priming innovative and ambitious avenues of research into rheumatic and related musculoskeletal, immunological and inflammatory diseases. Following peer-review by an independent panel of experts, ten awards...

VEXAS syndrome is an autoinflammatory condition that leads to fevers, general inflammation, skin rash, anaemia and organ damage. It can affect almost any organ in the body, result in bone marrow failure and it is associated with reduced survival. A...

Two professorships in translational medicine have been endowed at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology thanks to a generous gift from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research.  The Kennedy Trust has been a long-time supporter of the University of Oxford through...

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded ten new Research Ignition Awards, the Kennedy Trust’s inaugural pump-priming grant scheme designed to enable researchers to build ambitious programmes of research.  The research themes cover diverse areas, including osteoarthritic pain,...

In June 2022, The Kennedy Trust began funding a project to catalogue and house our archive at Wellcome Collection. Cataloguing Archivist Annie Lord was recruited to process the archive and she has spent the past 16 months sorting, listing, arranging,...