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    2009

  1. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  2. Rejuvenating ageing research
  3. Genome-wide association studies: understanding the genetics of common disease
  4. Global health diagnostics: research, development and regulation
  5. Biotechnology innovation: opportunities and challenges
  6. Research in general practice

    7. 2008

  7. Global mental health
  8. Brain science, addiction and drugs
  9. Inter-species embryos
  10. Building clinical academic capacity and the allocation of resources across academic specialties

    11. 2007

  11. Optimising stratified medicines R&D: addressing scientific and economic issues
  12. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  13. Careers for biomedical scientists and clinicians in industry
  14. Modernising medical careers inquiry
  15. Systems biology

    16. 2006

  16. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
  17. Use of non-human primates in research
  18. Pandemic influenza
  19. Science of violence
  20. Reform of research funding and assessment
  21. Public health - ethical issues
  22. Sir David Cooksey's review of UK health research
  23. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  24. Research ethics committees
  25. MB PhD working group
  26. Testing antibody therapies

    27. 2005

  27. Safer Medicines
  28. Human tissue consultations
  29. RAE 2008 Consultation: Panel criteria and methods
  30. The freedom to succeed
  31. Mental Capacity Bill
  32. Strengthening health services research
  33. SARS
  34. Microbial challenge studies

    35. 2004

  35. Detection and identification of infectious disease
  36. The science of ageing
  37. Choosing health
  38. Restoring neurological function
  39. Calling time: the nation's drinking as a major health issue
  40. Science spending
  41. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
  42. Human tissue legislation

    43. 2003

  43. Strengthening clinical research

    44. 2002

  44. Unclaimed and unidentified organs
  45. Infectious disease in livestock
  46. The structure, constitution and governance of the General Medical Council

    47. 2001

  47. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
  48. Vaccines - current status and future needs
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)

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Summary:
In 2001, the Academy of Medical Sciences and The Royal Society convened a joint working group in order to publish a statement on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs).

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Working Group Membership:

Professor Brian Heap FRS (Chair)
Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, and Master of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge

Professor Roy Anderson FRS FMedSci
Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Head of Department, Imperial College London

Professor Peter Biggs CBE FRS FMedSci

Dr Sheila Bird
Senior Scientist, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge

Professor Colin Blakemore FMedSci FRS
Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford

Professor Chris Bostock
Director, Institute for Animal Health

Dr Moira Bruce
Head of Pathology and Pathogenesis, Neuropathogenesis Unit, Edinburgh

Professor John Collinge FMedSci
Director MRC Prion Unit and Head of the Department of Neurogenetics, Imperial College London

Dr Christ Donnelly
Imperial College, London

Sir Aaron Klug, FRS FMedSci
Past-President of the Royal Society
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Professor Peter Lachmann FRS FMedSci
President, Academy of Medical Sciences

Professor Ian McConnell FRSE FMedSci
Professor of Veterinary Science and Director of Research, University of Cambridge

Dr Angela McLean
Lecturer in Epidemiology, University of Oxford

Dr Walter Plowright FRS

Professor Martin Raff FRS FMedSci
Professor of Biology, University College London

Professor Charles Weissmann ForMemRS FMedSci
Senior Research Scientist and Visiting Professor, MRC Prion Unit, Imperial CollegeLondon

Professor Robert Will, FMedSci
CJD Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh

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