Medical Engineering: Meetings on Research Priorities

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-144
Author(s):  
E A Mason
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Medical Engineering ◽  
General Level ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Programmes

The importance of ‘workshop’ type meetings to determine research priorities in a range of medical engineering topics has been demonstrated by means of a series of such meetings organised by the Science and Engineering Research Council. Four workshop-type meetings have been held in the past 2 years on topics ranging from incontinence to body access, and these have resulted in new, collaborative research programmes and an increase in the general level of interest in the topic. Further meetings of this type are planned in the coming twelve months.

scholarly journals The Continuing Challenges of Translational Research: Clinician-Scientists’ Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam ◽  
Janice Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Efficient Integration ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Over the last twenty years, revolutionary advances in biomedicine including gene therapy, stem cell research, proteomics, genomics and nanotechnology have highlighted the progressive need to restructure traditional approaches to basic and clinical research in order to facilitate the rapid, efficient integration and translation of these new technologies into novel effective therapeutics. Over the past ten years, funding bodies in the USA and UK such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have been driving translational research by defining and tackling the hurdles but more still remains to be achieved. This article discusses the ongoing challenges translational researchers face and outlines recent initiatives to tackle these including the new changes to translational funding schemes proposed by the NIH and the MRC and the launch of the “European Advanced Translational Research InfraStructure in Medicine” (EATRIS). It is anticipated that initiatives such as these will not only strengthen translational biomedical research programmes already initiated but should lead to rapid benefits to patients and society.

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