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SUMMARY:Issues in Research Funding Allocation - Professor Martin Bobrow\, 
 Cambridge University Hospitals
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DESCRIPTION:*Issues in Research Funding Allocation\nIntroduction by  Patri
 ck Sissons\, Regius Professor of Physic\n\nKeynote Address by Professor Ma
 rtin Bobrow*\n\n_A workshop in two parts\, led by Effrossyni Gkrania-Klots
 as of Addenbrooke’s Hospital\, the Institute of Public Health\, and Hugh
 es Hall Centre for Biomedical Science in Society._\n\nRSVP to Annica Curti
 s at  ac804@cam.ac.uk\n\n4 November\, 2011\,\nHughes Hall University of Ca
 mbridge\n\n5:00pm Tea and Coffee\, \n6:00-7:00om Seminar and replies\, \n7
 :00pm Drinks and conversation\n\nCharities\, governments and other funders
  of research must prioritize the areas in which they allocate research fun
 ding. An old but unresolved issue\, is the weight that should be given to 
 questions that the general public feel need urgent answers. Other groups r
 emind us of the unsolved pressing issues of the developing world and the r
 esponsibility we have developing preventive measures and treatments for tr
 opical and orphan diseases.\n\nThis keynote lecture\, delivered by Profess
 or Martin Bobrow\, will introduce us to some considerations relating to sc
 ience funding in this.\n\n_Should global disease priorities\, achievabilit
 y of research goals or research quality be guiding funding allocation?_\n\
 n_As a society\, do we need ethical guidelines that would drive future res
 earch agendas?_\n\n_Are these guidelines more urgently needed in recession
  times?_\n\nMartin Bobrow studied medicine in South Africa. He worked in E
 dinburgh and Oxford\, before becoming Professor of Medical Genetics in Ams
 terdam\, London and then Cambridge in 1995. He retired from this post in 2
 005. He has been Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust\, Chairman of ULTRA
  (Unrelated Living Transplant Regulating Authority)\, Chairman of COMARE (
 Department of Health Advisory Committee on radiation in the Environment)\,
  Deputy Chairman of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics\, Chairman of the Mu
 scular Dystrophy Campaign and a member of the Medical Research Council and
  the Human Genetics Advisory Commission.\n\nPlease\, RSVP to Annica Curtis
  ac804@cam.ac.uk indicating 'CBSS seminar 4th November' in your reply.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room/Pfeiffer Room\, Hughes Hall\, University of Camb
 ridge
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