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Lorraine Kelly becomes 100,000th volunteer to join SHARE

Television presenter – and former Rector of the University of Dundee – Lorraine Kelly has become the 100,000th volunteer to join a Scotland-wide effort to help shape the medicines of the future. SHARE (The Scottish Health Research Register) is a unique initiative which aims to make it easier for researchers to identify suitable recruits from Scotland to carry out ground breaking medical research. SHARE also uses blood left over from routine testing to help improve treatment...

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Clinical Research Specialty Group Lead roles

The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of Scottish Government is seeking applicants for three Clinical Research Specialty Group Lead roles. These part-time posts are open to medical consultants working in Scotland with a research interest in one of the following areas: Clinical Genetics/Rare Diseases

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Cross-border arrangements for provision of NHS R&D local site-specific information for cross-border studies

Over the next 6 months, the four Nations have committed to review the information required for study approval/confirmation of capacity and capability at the local NHS site level.  This is with the aspiration of coming to a common UK position, that supports the timely set-up of studies and that meets the needs of sponsors, research sites, NHS patients and service users.  This review will be facilitated through a series of workshops involving operational and policy leads f...

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Network Champions appointed

Clinical Research Champions have been appointed to provide national leadership in the development of clinical research activity in Scotland. The appointments across Children's, Stroke and Diabetes networks will take up post on 1st June 2016.  Prof Jürgen Schwarze (based in Edinburgh) - Children's Network Research Champion Prof Schwarze (FRCPCH) is the Edward Clark...

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2016 iCAN Research and Advocacy Summit

The Young Person's Group, part of the Scottish Children's Research Network (ScotCRN), attended the International Children’s Advisory Network Summit in Barcelona helping improve paediatric health, medicine, research and innovation by sharing children’s voices in an impactful way. 

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UK Research Paper of the Year - BMJ Awards 2016

The Bronchiolitis Infant Discharge Study (BIDS) published in the Lancet has won the prestigious UK Clinical Paper of the year at the BMJ 2016 Awards. Bronchiolitis is a common infection in infants and a minority require admission to hospital where oxygen levels are monitored and supplemental oxygen provided to those that fall below an oxygen saturation threshold. The question is where that threshold should lie? Professor Steve Cunningham of the Department of Child...

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Independent Board Member (Industry) for OSCHR

The Department of Health are looking to appoint an Independent Board Member (Industry) for Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) OSCHR’s mission is to facilitate more efficient translation of health research into health and economic benefits in the UK through better coordination and more coherent funding arrangements to support translation. Independent members of the OSCHR Board play a central role in enabling OSCHR to achieve this mission by contrib...

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Scottish cancer patients the focus of Glasgow research conference

Cancer patients in Scotland are set to benefit from closer working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical Industry.   The Scottish Cancer Research Working with Industry Forum – an ongoing collaboration between the pharma industry, NHS Scotland and academics – is holding its second conference in Glasgow today bringing together delegates from NHS, patient representative groups, industry and academia; and demonstrating the strong ethos of collaboration in Scotland....

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