About us

The Torbay Medical Research Fund is an independent charitable fund that was set up in 1970 by local medical practitioners to encourage better health in Torbay through supporting local research. The Fund's instigators believed that investing in research meant investing in the future. Over 40 years later the Fund's focus remains on supporting medical, dental, health and care research that benefits the people of Torbay and South Devon. If you are a practitioner working within Torbay and South Devon with a research project in mind or are planning to present your findings to a conference, the Research Fund has funding str...

Call for research grant applications open

Torbay Medical Research Fund has launched its next call for research grant applications. Applicatio...

Conferences are back and funding available

With the pandemic most face to face conferences within the UK and abroad were stopped. As we move to...

Grant awarded to support children’s research in Torbay

Dr Felicity Thomas, from the University of Exeter, working with Torbay Council has been awarded a significant grant to undertake research in understanding the high numbers of children in statutory care in Torbay. This research is important as tackling health...

Peer connect study funded to undertake a feasibility RCT study of a targeted peer coaching service

This research project will undertake a feasibility trial and qualitative study to evaluate the implementation a new volunteer peer coaching service in Torbay Hospital designed to support outpatients with chronic pain, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosi...

Fund provides research grant towards ‘Building a brighter future’

Torbay Hospital is 1 of 48 Trusts nationally that have been awarded funding to build a new state of the art hospital which supports the people of Torbay and South Devon. In order to understand what ‘building a brighter future’ looks lik...