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David Willetts gives an update on the UK LIfe Sciences Strategy
The Office for LIfe Sciences give an update on how they are implementing the Strategy for UK Life Sciences
David Cameron highlights the strengths of British life sciences
August 2, 2012 by martinturner
The Prime Minister outlines the key strengths of UK life sciences in a speech to the Global Health Policy Summit
Committee exploring the valley of death
January 15, 2012 by beckypurvis
The commons science and technology committee are looking at the commercialisation of research. If life sciences is going to be a growth area for the UK economy, we have to be good not just at doing the research but translating what we’ve found out into commercial applications, i.e. things we can make and sell and […]
What is the Clinical Practice Research Datalink?
December 5, 2011 by martinturner
With the details of almost every person in the UK, the health records held by the NHS are an invaluable resource for researchers. George Osborne reiterated the value of data in his autumn statement, highlighting it as a driver of growth through research and innovation and David Cameron spoke of it today. With this in […]
How good is the UK at research?
October 28, 2011 by martinturner
A new report published by BIS comparing the UK against other research-intensive nations highlights the international strength of the UK research community but also warns that it is under threat from underfunding and a decreasing share of the international scientific workforce. The report includes some pretty interesting statistics about research in the UK, comparing what […]
What does this decision to ban patenting of embryo stem cells mean?
October 19, 2011 by beckypurvis
The European Court of Justice made a decision yesterday which effectively bans the patenting of scientific techniques involving embryonic stem cells, even if the technique itself does not directly destroy an embryo but at some stage in the process has involved the use of an embryo. This has no effect on us doing research using […]
What are these new NHS-university partnerships?
October 17, 2011 by martinturner
On 6th October the government launched two new NIHR translational research partnerships that will focus on two disease areas: inflammatory respiratory disease and joint and related inflammatory disease. These are a continuation of the Therapeutic Capability Clusters trialed last year aimed at bringing together experts in the NHS and academia and outside funders to try […]
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August 29, 2012 by martinturner
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