"Research in lung disease must reflect the glittering edge of our specialty, and, in doing so, it will be addressing the most important unmet clinical needs of our patients."
Professor Stephen Holgate, BTS President, 2007
Thorax, 62, No 12, 1028-1032
Promoting and disseminating research is one of the Society's key objectives and it works to meet this objective in a number of ways. The Society publishes the learned journal Thorax in partnership with the British Medical Journal.
Dates of future BTS Winter Meetings
5–7 December 2012
4–6 December 2013
3–5 December 2014
2-4 December 2015
7-9 December 2016
6-8 December 2017
5-7 December 2018
4-6 December 2019
2-4 December 2020
All Meetings will take place in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London
BMA Research Grants 2012
The British Medical Association (BMA) awards research grants each year (totalling approximately £500,000) to encourage and further medical research in a variety of areas. Several of these grants, may be relevant to respiratory research. Applications are invited from BMA members and can be for either research in progress or prospective research.
The research grants are now open to apply for online on the BMA website. The application deadline is 16 March 2012. For more information on BMA research grants and to apply, please visit www.bma.org.uk/researchgrants .
If you would like to receive alerts about the BMA research grants, please email info.sciencegrants@bma.org.uk .
H C Roscoe Grant – £45,000
To promote research into the elimination of the common cold and/or other viral diseases
of the human respiratory system. Applicants must be members of the BMA or research scientists working with a member of the BMA.
Joan Dawkins Grant - £45,000
To assist research into information and communication technologies in medicine, including
telemedicine. Applicants must be registered medical practitioners or research scientists. Projects must
relate to the UK only.
The James Trust Grant – £50,000
To assist research into asthma. Applicants must be registered medical practitioners in the UK and a member of the BMA.
Gilead UK and Ireland Fellowship Programme
Closing date 31 March 2012.
The aim of the 2012 programme is to award financial grants to generate and promote best practice in the delivery of patient centred care through innovative and reproducible models in the following four areas – HIV, invasive fungal disease (IFD), hepatitis B (HBV) and cystic fibrosis (CF). Evidence generated from Fellowship projects will provide the opportunity to shape public health policy (either at local or national level) in the UK and Ireland, or to generate new studies or joint ventures to shape clinical care pathways. As an example, HIV data generated over the last 3 years has been successfully used to support the Halve It campaign, a coalition of national experts to tackle the public health challenges posed by HIV.
Grants will be awarded to individual organisations or groups of healthcare providers within a locality, such as, but not limited to, hospital clinics, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Primary Care Organisations (PCOs), Health Boards, Health Offices and patient organisations.
For more information visit the website www.ukifellowshipprogramme.com