News for Investigators

The National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) is holding a patient and public open day.

The NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit held a successful workshop on the use of stem cells in neurological disease which included talks from UCL, Oxford and Cambridge researchers.

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

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched its 11th call for proposals from consortia from a range of sectors.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is inviting applications for round 5 of its research methods fellowships and internships.

Do you know someone at UCL who deserves recognition for public engagement? Nominate them for this year’s Provost’s awards for public engagement.

Applications are invited for the second round of the NIHR Transitional Research Fellowship scheme.

Researchers into rare diseases can apply to the NIHR BioResource for Rare Diseases for next generation sequencing (NGST) of their DNA samples.

The next deadline for the fast track grants scheme will be 8 November 2013.

Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable is looking for innovative ideas from across health care and the life sciences which have the potential to deliver meaningful impact on the lives of patients.

The NIHR is inviting nominations for up to five research professorships.

Dr Paola Giunti and Dr Michael Parkinson have recently celebrated the publication of their research in a special supplement marking 150 years of research into Friedreich’s Ataxia.

The Crick Institute are looking for researchers to develop and run activities at an event in February 2014 at the Science Museum.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has announced changes to the organisational structure of the NIHR Local Clinical Research Networks (LCRNs). Each LCRN is hosted by an existing NHS Trust. UCLH (and all other UCL Partner Hospitals) is part of the Central and East London LCRN.

The deadline is approaching for applications for multi-user equipment grants and biomedical resource and technology development grants, following strategic investments made in research infrastructure by the School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS).