The Wellcome Trust has announced that applications are now open for Postdoctoral Training Fellowships for MB/PhD Graduates. The programme is aimed at newly qualified MB/PhD graduates or those who have achieved a high-quality PhD during or before starting their medical degree. Postdoctoral Training Fellowships for MB/PhD Graduates was last modified: March 28th, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...HSC Innovations recommends to HSC entrepreneurs and ‘wantrepreneurs’ the excellent workshop series provided by the CONNECT programme at the Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP). Coming up in this series is Protection: Intellectual Property tactics for start-ups, on Thursday 24th March 2011, 8.30am – 10am at NISP. Here’s the introduction: Protection: Intellectual Property Tactics for Start-Ups was
Read more ...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 7 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit
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The £25k Awards – the search for the next big thing! The £25k entrepreneurship contest is a commercial educational experience designed to encourage researchers and individuals to act on their talents, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow’s leading commercial opportunities. The programme helps identify, qualify, prepare and present the best knowledge-based ideas and intellectual property
Read more ...Once again, HSC Innovations encourages members of staff in the HSC trusts to consider applying for the Wellcome Trust Translation Awards. Translation Awards are response-mode funding designed to bridge the funding gap in the commercialisation of new technologies in the biomedical area. Wellcome Trust Translation Awards – July deadline was last modified: June 28th, 2011
Read more ...New agreement launched to streamline research collaboration between life sciences industry, universities and the NHS Research into new and improved treatment for patients received a major boost today when the government announced the launch of a new model agreement between the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, universities and the NHS to streamline the research contracting process.
Read more ...The fourth theme of the Health Innovation Challenge Fund is Smart Surgery: Innovative technologies or interventions to reduce, replace or refine invasive surgical procedures. The Health Innovation Challenge Fund is a five-year parallel funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions, and facilitate their
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The new issue of R&D Today, published by the R&D Division of the HSC Public Health Agency (previously the HSC R&D Office), profiles the work supported by Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care R&D fund. HSC R&D Today Issue 14 -Winter 2011 is available here. R&D Today – Winter 2011 Issue was last modified: April 12th, 2011
Read more ...A new date for the Northern HSC Trust workshop that was postponed from December 2010. On Friday 15th April 2011 HSC Innovations will deliver a workshop on ‘Innovation to Improve Patient Care’ for members of staff in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, supported by the Northern Trust Research Office. Northern Trust Workshop –
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HSC Innovations has published the January 2011 issue of its newsletter, which is aimed at members of staff in the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts. Newsletter Published – January 2011 was last modified: April 7th, 2011 by hscinnovations
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