European Institute of Innovation Technology (EIT) partnership workshop on diet, metabotypes and healthy living
The AMR cross-council initiative has launched a new call under theme 2 – “Accelerating therapeutic and diagnostic development”.
MRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, and ESRC are supporting this call and the MRC is managing it on behalf of the funding partners.
The focus of the call is to:
Partnership between industry and academia is actively encouraged under this initiative.
The call has two funding modes:
Deadline for submission is 4 June 2015.
Please circulate widely to your communities and direct them to this webpage:
For queries:
MRC: Ghada Zoubiane / Ruth Kelly amr@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
BBSRC: Sian Rowland: amr@bbsrc.ac.uk
EPSRC: Victoria Marlow: healthcare@epsrc.ac.uk
ESRC: Naomi Beaumont: Naomi.Beaumont@esrc.ac.uk
Our call has now closed and we have received and acknowledged a record number of applications – 83 in total! Thank you for applying.
For information, the board will be meeting on 29th and 30th April to discuss applications and award successful ones.
If you have any queries in the mean time, please contact us nrn@cardiff.ac.uk
The new £3m life sciences bridging fund, established in March 2015, will create commercial opportunities from Welsh life sciences research projects, stimulating further growth in the sector. The fund will be managed by the Life Sciences Hub Wales and will support up to 25 research projects over 3 years.
The Scientific Advisory Board will be responsible for the administration, governance, management and delivery of the fund and will report to the Life Sciences Hub Board who will be responsible for providing oversight of the fund.
Welsh Government, on behalf of the Life Sciences Hub Wales, is seeking applicants with an interest in, knowledge and experience of the life sciences sector, in particular research and commercialisation; technology transfer, academia and commercial exploitation of life sciences research.
Background to the Fund:
http://gov.wales/newsroom/businessandeconomy/2015/9877571/?status=closed&lang=en
Closing date: 15 April 2015
Further details and application information can be found at: http://www.lifescienceshubwales.com/news/life-sciences-bridging-fund-scientific-advisory-board-appointment-of-members/
Next Deadline: Tuesday 31st March – midnight
Current Opportunities:
For more information, visit this page or contact us on 029 20 87 4537
https://www.lsrnw.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/
The Life Sciences Research Network Wales – funded by Welsh Government’s Ser Cymru Programme.
GSK have recently launched their Discovery Fast Track Challenge. This scheme is an opportunity for academic researchers to work with GSK scientists on the development of new medicines. It is aimed at academics that have identified a drug development concept and wish to work with GSK to translate novel science into new medicines.
The Discovery Fast Track Challenge is looking for proposals that are able to address the following questions:
Do you have a clear therapeutic hypothesis?
GSK are looking for a coherent ad supportable hypothesis for the development of a medicine that would provide therapeutic benefits to particular groups of patients.
Do you have a defined target and/or pathway?
You should have identified a specific drug target linked to disease and can propose ways of modulating this to provide a effective and safe therapy
Do you have enabling expertise?
The Discover Fast Track Challenge is a partnership. You should have generated data which provides proof of concept for your proposal and, ideally, already developed key reagents and assays.
The deadline for submission of a brief non-confidential summary is the 24th of April 2015. Please note that you should contact your relevant Technology Transfer Office in the first instance who will be able to support you with the application process.
The Life Science Research Network Wales recently invited the Wellcome Trust to the Life Sciences Hub to give a presentation on the Wellcome Trust Translational Funding opportunities. The event was attended by 42 academics from across Wales and was followed by dedicated one to one sessions. The slides of the event can be downloaded here.
Venue: National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
Date: Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July 2015
The 4th China-United Kingdom Cancer (CUKC) Conference is being held on the 17th – 18th July 2015 at the National Museum, Cardiff. The Conference is hosted by Cardiff University, together with our partners and co-organisers, Peking University, Capital Medical University and Yiling Group.
The Conference will bring together elite speakers and distinguished representatives from China and the UK who will share their state of the art knowledge and experience in clinical, translational and basic research in Cancer. The conference will also serve as a platform to explore and discuss collaborative opportunities. Previous Conference details can be found here and a draft Programme is available here
To register your attendance, please complete and return the Conference Registration Form and Abstract Template by Monday 2nd March 2015 to cardiffchina@cardiff.ac.uk. Both forms, along with Fee information, are available on our website: http://cukc.org.uk/how-to-register/. Accepted abstracts will be published in a SCI listed journal.
If you would be interested in Sponsoring the Conference, opportunities and package information is available here http://cukc.org.uk/sponsors/
Should you require any further information, please contact: cardiffchina@cardiff.ac.uk
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The Life Science Research Network Wales are pleased to announce that they are working with the Welsh Government on establishing a Proof-of-Concept fund for the Life Sciences. The Welsh Government has identified the Life Sciences as a key economic sector and have already made a number of other major investments such as establishing the Life Sciences Hub Wales and the Wales Life Sciences (Arthurian) Investment Fund. To further support these initiatives the Welsh Government has just agreed to consider “in principle” an additional sum for a Bridging fund in the Life Sciences, to bridge the gap between basic sciences and commercialisation. Part of this will involve matched funding with the Private Sector, which is a model already strongly exemplified by the Life Science Research Network Wales and Arthurian. We are hopeful that the model will be operational by the start of fiscal year 2015/16.
This fund will enable researchers to develop the commercial potential of their research thus generating significant economic, social and health benefits for the people of Wales. The fund will be open to researchers from across Wales and support a broad range of life science areas including:
Projects will be awarded via open competition and assessed on research excellence and commercial potential. Projects will be assessed by an independent panel chaired by Dr David Owen OBE, who was previously responsible for establishing the MRC’s independent technology transfer arm – MRC Technology.
The fund represents a major opportunity for members of the Life Science Research Network to develop the commercial potential of their research proposals.
Further details will be available on the Life Science Research Network’s website shortly.