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Office for Life Sciences - Therapeutic Capability Clusters call

The Office for Life Sciences has released a call for initial applications from NHS/academic centres that are interested in forming part of Therapeutic Capability Clusters in two key areas: inflammatory respiratory diseases and joint and related inflammatory diseases. These pilot Therapeutic Capability Clusters mark the first stage in the formation of a UK Life Sciences Super Cluster.

An Open Meeting is being held on 3 March 2010 to provide more information about the concept of Therapeutic Capability Clusters.

The deadline for submitting the initial application form is 12 noon, on 29 March 2010.

In Vivo Science Strategic Skill Awards

Strategic Skill Awards for in vivo science is an important new joint initiative between the MRC, BBSRC and British Pharmacological Society to provide supplementary funding to MRC and BBSRC funded PhD studentships, supporting research training in advanced integrative mammalian biology.

Environmental Exposure & Health Initiative (EEHI)

A joint initiative funded by the MRC, NERC, ESRC, Department of Health, and Defra.
 
Under this initiative, the partners invite high quality, innovative, and inter-disciplinary proposals that address the relationship between environmental pollutants and interacting stressors and human health with the aim to advance the development of evidence-based policies. Up to £8-10m funding is available to support four to six large strategic collaborative programmes for up to four years.

Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases (ESEI) phase 1

This ground-breaking initiative aims to establish novel inter-disciplinary approaches to studying the ecology of infectious diseases.

The ESRC, MRC, NERC, and BBSRC recognise that important new insights into the drivers and control of infectious diseases in human populations can only be achieved by taking a holistic systems approach which takes into account the ways in which the natural and social environments affect the emergence (emergence, re-emergence, and development of drug resistance) and spread of infectious disease.

This new paradigm will enable us to respond proactively to the threat from novel pathogens and emerging infections.

Highlight notice:  - Systems biology for medicine

The potential for systems biology approaches to address questions of medical relevance is becoming increasingly apparent.  The Medical Research Council wishes to encourage applications to all MRC research boards, particularly at programme-level, for “systems medicine”: using systems approaches in medical research.

Improved measurement methods for population science research highlight notice

The Population and Systems Medicine Board has identified a need for research that would lead to improved measurement of exposures/outcomes suitable for use in population health studies. The Board would like to expand its portfolio in this area and encourages high quality applications that are aimed at problems of public health importance in the UK or priority issues on the global health agenda.