Previous projects

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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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RAE 2008 Consultation: Panel criteria and methods

Summary| Working Group Membership| Project Downloads

Summary:
In October 2005 the Academy responded to a consultation issued by the Higher Education Funding Councils and Department of Employment and Learning Northern Ireland about the draft panel criteria and working methods proposed for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

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Working Group Membership:

Professor Peter Rigby FMedSci (Chairman)
Chief Executive and Professor of Developmental Biology
Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Colin Bird CBE FRSE FMedSci
Council member
Academy of Medical Sciences

Professor John Duncan FMedSci
Professor of Neurology
University College London

Professor David Gordon FMedSci
Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences
University of Manchester

Professor George Griffin FMedSci
Vice Principal (Research)
St. George's University London

Professor Keith Gull CBE FRS FMedSci
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular Microbiology
University of Oxford

Professor Susan Iversen CBE FMedSci
Professor of Psychology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resource Allocation)
University of Oxford

Sir Keith Peters (Observer)
President
Academy of Medical Sciences

Professor Stephen Smith FMedSci
Principal, Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London

Professor Eric Thomas FMedSci
Vice-Chancellor
University of Bristol

Secretariat

Laurie Smith
Policy Officer
Academy of Medical Sciences

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