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

Description:
In October 2006 the Academy responded to consultation issued by the Department for Education and Skills on the reform of higher education research assessment and funding. The response was prepared in consultation with the Academy's Officers, Sectional Committees and Fellows who had been involved in previous Academy statements on this matter. Further details can be found in the policy section of the website.
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