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  1. Academy writes to the Prime Minister regarding the life sciences
  2. Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers scheme
  3. New Year Honours 2012
  4. Academy welcomes the Prime Minister’s commitments to the life sciences
  5. New President
  6. Annual Review and Financial Statements 2010/11
  7. UK/Middle East Travel Fellowship Scheme open for applications
  8. EU Physical Agents Directive
  9. Updated guidelines for monitoring academic training and progress
  10. Medical science as an engine of economic growth
  11. Principles for revalidation
  12. Academy and MRC launch internship scheme
  13. Academy report on animals containing human material
  14. Academy response to Home Office consultation on animal research
  15. Academy welcomes research-focussed revisions to the Health Bill
  16. New President elected
  17. New Fellows elected 2011
  18. Queen's Birthday Honours 2011
  19. Regulatory review: a positive response in Whitehall and on Capitol Hill
  20. Workshop on tropical medicine and parasitology
  21. Treatments to avoid transmission of mitochondrial disease
  22. Policy internship scheme
  23. 2011 Budget response
  24. UK/Middle East Travel Fellowship Scheme Newsletter
  25. Foulkes Foundation Medal
  26. A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research
  27. UK/Middle East Travel Fellowship Scheme open until 17 Jan 2011
  28. Fellows recognised in the New Year Honours 2011
  29. Health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change
  30. Exploring the boundaries: evaluation
  31. Clinical academic pathways - opportunities and future directions
  32. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  33. Comprehensive Spending Review
  34. International Health Lecture 2010
  35. We've moved
  36. Statement on the health of women and children
  37. Public dialogue shows support for the use of animals containing human material
  38. Submission to the Spending Review
  39. 2010 Sackler Lecture - bookings open
  40. Review of arm’s-length bodies
  41. Academy Fellow appointed as new MRC Chief Executive
  42. Health White Paper highlights Academy study
  43. New Honorary Officer
  44. First steps
  45. Academy to conduct review of UK medical research regulation and governance
  46. Queen's Birthday Honours
  47. Closing the gap - £400,000 to go
  48. New Fellows Elected 2010
  49. International Health Lecture
  50. Academy seeking public views on research using animals containing human material
  51. Damaging gulf growing between teaching and research in UK universities
  52. Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical sciences
  53. Animals containing human material
  54. Update on the EU Animals in Research Directive
  55. Merger of the GMC and Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board
  56. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours 2010
  57. Statement on climate change
  58. Global health perspectives
  59. Rejuvenating ageing research
  60. Jean Shanks Lecture - genetic fingerprinting and beyond
  61. Research in general practice: 'bringing innovation into patient care'
  62. Position paper on revalidation
  63. ACMD to assess cognition enhancers
  64. Genome studies report launched
  65. Hype, hope and hybrids
  66. Academy Vice-President awarded Royal Medal
  67. Southampton symposium: translating new research into clinical practice
  68. Fellows recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours
  69. Academy makes recommendations to build clinical academic capacity
  70. Job vacancy: Policy Officer
  71. Global health diagnostics: research, development and regulation
  72. Academy review 2009
  73. The Bologna Process: Will it affect UK biomedical and clinical science?
  74. Global mental health report
  75. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours
  76. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture
  77. New Honorary Fellows elected
  78. Economic benefits of medical research
  79. New grants scheme for Clinical Lecturers
  80. New fellowship scheme launched
  81. Five new Clinician Scientist Fellowships awarded
  82. New Headquarters for Academy
  83. Autumn programme of national mentoring and outreach scheme workshops announced
  84. Presidential perspectives
  85. Professor Hans Rosling to give International Health Lecture
  86. Jean Shanks Lecture 2008
  87. Brain science, addiction and drugs
  88. Fellows recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours
  89. New Fellows Elected to Academy
  90. Academy advises MPs on HFE Bill
  91. Fellows communications survey
  92. PMETB approves Academy guidelines
  93. Optimizing stratified medicines R&D
  94. Innovative Medicines Initiative
  95. Academy responds to the Tooke Report
  96. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours
  97. Innovative Medicines Initiative
  98. Clinician Scientist Fellowship Scheme - Application process now closed
  99. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  100. Honorary Fellow elected
  101. First Foulkes Foundation Medal Awarded
  102. Academy responds to MHRA consultation
  103. Launch of the Clinician Scientist Fellowship scheme
  104. Academy response to Comprehensive Spending Review
  105. Academy Fellow awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine
  106. Academy launches report on biomedical careers in Industry
  107. Academy of Medical Sciences International Health Lecture
  108. Inter-species embryos
  109. Academy responds to Modernising Medical Careers Inquiry
  110. Backing for UK Strategy on non-human primate research
  111. New Fellows Elected
  112. Modernising Medical Careers Inquiry
  113. Job vacancies
  114. Website launched to promote careers in bioscience
  115. Systems Biology: a vision for engineering and medicine
  116. Academy launches national debate on drugs and drug use
  117. Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs: public and stakeholder engagement
  118. MB PhD Symposium
  119. The use of non-human primates in research
  120. Pandemic Influenza: science to policy
  121. Non-experimental methods
  122. Non-experimental methods
  123. Consultation response: 'Reform of research funding and assessment'
  124. Consultation response: 'Public health - ethical issues'
  125. Sir David Cooksey's Review of UK Health Research
  126. Science of Violence
  127. Careers in Industry Working Group: Call for Evidence
  128. MB PhD Working Group: Call for Evidence
  129. Appointment of a new Registrar
  130. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  131. Experimental Medicine Symposium
  132. Testing Antibody Therapies
  133. Academy of Medical Sciences Appoints New President
  134. Pandemic Influenza
  135. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
  136. 2006 Annual Forum Lecture
  137. Safer Medicines
  138. The Freedom to Succeed
  139. Forum Medical Science Briefings
  140. Lecture on International Health
  141. Medical science can contribute to reducing violent crime
  142. Council Nominations
  143. Appointment of Foreign Secretary
  144. Job vacancy: Policy Officer
  145. Job vacancy: Finance Officer
  146. Job vacancy
  147. Job vacancy: Programme Manager
  148. International strategy launch
  149. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  150. Job vacancy - Programme Officer
  151. Mitochondrial diseases
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ACMD to assess cognition enhancers

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Following recommendations in the Academy's 'Brain science, addiction and drugs' report the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has committed to provide Government with an assessment of the harms and issues associated with psychoactive substances termed ‘cognition enhancers’.

View further information on 'Brain science, addiction and drugs'

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