The Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research course will be held from September 28, 2011 to November 9,2011 on Wednesday mornings from 8:30 to 11:30 in Lipsett Amphitheater, NIH Clinical Center, Bldg 10. Details for registering for this course as well as agenda details, faculty information, educational objectives and target audience can be found [...]

“Thinking Ahead: Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics” 26-29 June 2012 Rotterdam The Netherlands From June 26th till June 29th 2012 Erasmus MC Rotterdam will host the 11th conference of the International Association of Bioethics: THINKING AHEAD, Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics. This conference will discuss key issues relevant [...]

Quest for Research Excellence 2011 Conference Date: August 29-30, 2011 Location: Washington, DC The conference is co-sponsored by ORI and the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical Translational Science. Previous ORI conferences have focused either on Research on Research Integrity (RRI) or the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). This conference is the first to address both [...]

Second round of the Call for Proposals funded by the IDRC grant “EVIPNet: Evidence-informed policy network for better health policy-making in Sub-Saharan Africa .” For the full Call of Proposals click here The second Call deadline for Letters of Intent (LoI) is  30 September. The new Call accepts two different levels of Country Teams (Knowledge [...]

Following a pilot call last year, the Medical Research Council has now launched a second call to support African Research Leaders. This is a highly prestigious award, jointly funded by the MRC and the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), for non-clinical and clinical researchers of exceptional ability. The aim of the scheme is to [...]

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Strategic-awards-and-initiatives/WTVM052057.htm The purpose of this call is to support the establishment of African networks to carry out research within the remit of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative, which is a partnership between the African Society of Human Genetics, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust. Background The [...]