News for Investigators

The NIHR is inviting applications to its translational funding scheme to advance healthcare technologies and interventions for increased patient benefit in areas of clinical need.

The Academic Careers Office is inviting BRC Principal Investigators to initiate collaborations to form supervisory teams for clinical research training fellowships at the Crick Institute.

Registration is open for a programme of short courses run by The Farr Institute to help researchers to use electronic healthcare data.

The NIHR has launched a new advice service on how fees for public involvement affect people’s state benefits.

UCL investigators can apply for the UCL Therapeutic Innovation Fund (TIF) or the Confidence in Concept (CiC) fund.

The NIHR Rare Diseases Translational Research Collaboration is inviting expressions of interests for industry–collaborative early experimental medicine projects.

The BRC Neurosciences programme celebrated a successful year with its annual meeting this month.

The deadline for the fast track grants scheme has been extended to 30th January.

INVOLVE has released guidance for researchers who want to use social media (such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube etc.) to actively involve patients or the public in health or social care research.

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for a fellowship scheme for pre- and post-doctoral nurses and midwives pursuing a clinical academic career path.

The deadline is fast approaching for the latest Access to Understanding science writing competition.

Arthritis Research UK and the Medical Technologies Innovation Knowledge Centre are offering grants of up to £100,000 for technologies that address musculoskeletal conditions.

The MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre is inviting applications for stratified medicine pilot projects.

The latest Cardiovascular Gene Annotation Initiative newsletter, edited by BRC faculty member Dr Ruth Lovering, can be read here.

A new programme to support collaborations and/or new projects between UCLH consultants and UCL academics in medical devices research has been launched.