Six workstreams, one mission
Each workstream has a distinct role in the programme — together they span discovery to delivery across partner institutions in all four UK nations.
DIGIT — Data and Digital Industry Alliance Team
One funded project delivering workstreams 01–03. About DIGIT
Alliance Management Team
The AMT is a wrap-around service for industry — linking companies with methodology expertise in trial design and delivery, the lived experience partnership, bespoke IP and royalty strategies, funding applications and advisory board development. It provides a seamless structure that is simple to navigate for companies of every size, complementing the NIHR Innovation Service and the MRC Mental Health Platform.
Delivered byKing’s College LondonInnovative Clinical Trials Hub
The Innovative Clinical Trials Hub (ITH) provides statistical and methodological expertise in the design and analysis of precision psychiatry studies, from early-phase biomarker-guided designs through adaptive Phase 2 and 3 trials — plus the infrastructure for multi-arm multi-stage platform studies delivered at scale in primary and community settings.
Delivered byKing’s College LondonLived Experience Industry Partnership
The LEIP creates a new alliance between patients and industry — joint priority setting, deliberative dialogues and communities of practice that align what patients want with what industry develops, and rebalance power between patients, research and industry.
Delivered byUniversity of Oxford
Delivered with programme partners across the UK.
Digital Innovation
The Digital Innovation workstream supports digital health technologies through launch, adoption and scale in the NHS — creating clear pathways for digital therapeutics and measurement tools to reach the people who need them.
Delivered byUniversity of ManchesterDATAMIND TRE and Observatory
The DATAMIND Trusted Research Environment (TRE) supports approved researchers working with sensitive mental health data in a secure, governed setting. The DATAMIND Observatory provides specialist real-world analytics to inform research and trial decisions, with disclosure-controlled outputs for industry partners. Together, these services connect secure data infrastructure with the expertise to turn data into useful evidence.
Delivered byUniversity of Manchester · Swansea UniversityMulti-omics
In severe depression, led from King’s College London, building on the GLAD (Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression) Study. In psychosis, led from Cardiff University’s Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics with the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, which also leads multi-omic data generation. Together: biological and clinical data at unprecedented depth.
Delivered byKing’s College London · Cardiff University · Queen’s University Belfast · University of Edinburgh · University of Cambridge
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