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A summit on precision medicine was held on the 10th September 2018. This summit brought together pre-eminent academic, industry, NHS, and Government leaders to identify how Scotland can cement and capitalise on the strengths and opportunities in precision medicine. The aim was to agree a shared narrative that will catalyse economic growth and sustained patient benefit for Scotland.
The outcomes document from the summit is now available.
The MRC is pleased to announce the launch of a £10m ‘Experimental Medicine Challenge Grant’ call, which aims to support innovative programmes of research into disease pathophysiology, using humans as the experimental animal.
Remit
All proposals must involve an experimental intervention, or “challenge”, in humans and should be sufficiently ambitious and demanding to warrant funding through this scheme rather than through standard research grant support. Please see the EMCG 2018 webpage, and guidance for applicants, for further details.
Funding Available
The EMCG scheme will support a range of award scales, from smaller, focussed, more exploratory and highly innovative projects (based e.g. on an intellectually sound hypothesis but perhaps lacking extensive pilot data), to larger programmatic awards based on a more substantial platform of evidence.
Application Process and Deadline
There is a two-stage application process: an outline application followed by a full application (by invitation only).
The deadline for outline applications is 31st May 2018. Proposals must be submitted through the Je-S system (open on 3rd April for submissions). If successful at outline stage, applicants will be invited to submit full applications. The deadline for full applications will be in November 2018 (exact date tbc), with decisions in February 2019 (exact date tbc).
Enquires
Before submission of an outline you should contact the MRC Programme Manager for Experimental Medicine, Dr Rebecca Barlow,: rebecca.barlow@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
For other queries please contact: Experimental.Medicine@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk.
Have your say on the future of research relevant to living with and beyond cancer
More and more people are living with the consequences of cancer and its treatment – what we have termed living with and beyond cancer. But there’s not enough research relevant to living with and beyond cancer.
The National Cancer Research Institute is working on a project to change this. We have opened a new survey for patients, the people who look after or have looked after them, and the professionals who work with them, to identify the most important questions that research should address – this is the second survey in our project. Tell us which of these research questions are most important by completing our survey and help us to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. You do not need to have taken part in the previous survey. The survey will close on 12 April 2018. You can find out more about the project at www.ncri.org.uk/jla.
Survey link: https://www.research.net/r/CancerQs2
Living with and beyond cancer survey flyer 2018
