About us

The Cardiff Joint Research Office (JRO) is a partnership between Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB) and Cardiff University (CU) to support the development and set up and approvals for health research in Cardiff. Commercial and hosted The JRO team, support researchers across the Health board and University, through funding development, Governance and regulatory compliances, submission of applications, contracting and intellectual property (IP).

Our Mission

  • To provide a collaborative and responsive research and development service which will encourage, support and deliver high quality and high impact research. 
  • To secure improvements in the clinical setting in order to improve patient outcomes and secure optimal provision of health and to clinical services in the broader social environment.