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Professor Martin Bobrow "Issues in Research Funding Allocation" Abstract: Charities, governments and other funders of research must prioritise the areas in which they allocate research funding. An old but unresolved issue, is the weight that should be given to questions that the general public feel need urgent answers. Other groups remind us of the unsolved pressing issues of the developing world and the responsibility we have developing preventive measures and treatments for tropical and orphan diseases. This keynote lecture, delivered by Professor Martin Bobrow, will introduce us to some considerations relating to science funding in this. Should global disease priorities, achievability of research goals or research quality be guiding funding allocation? As a society, do we need ethical guidelines that would drive future research agendas? Are these guidelines more urgently needed in recession times?

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AbstractCharities, governments and other funders of research must prioritise the areas in which they allocate research funding. An old but unresolved issue, is the weight that should be given to questions that the general public feel need urgent answers. Other groups remind us of the unsolved pressing issues of the developing world and the responsibility we have developing preventive measures and treatments for tropical and orphan diseases.This keynote lecture, delivered by Professor Martin Bobrow, will introduce us to some considerations relating to science funding in this. Should global disease priorities, achievability of research goals or research quality be guiding funding allocation? As a society, do we need ethical guidelines that would drive future research agendas? Are these guidelines more urgently needed in recession times?

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Page 1: Introduction to issues in research funding allocation

Professor Martin Bobrow "Issues in Research Funding Allocation"

 Abstract: Charities,  governments  and  other  funders  of  research must  prioritise the areas in which they allocate research funding. An old but unresolved issue, is the weight  that  should  be  given  to  questions  that  the  general  public  feel  need urgent  answers. Other  groups  remind  us  of  the  unsolved  pressing  issues  of  the developing world and the responsibility we have developing preventive measures and  treatments  for  tropical and orphan diseases. This  keynote  lecture, delivered by Professor Martin Bobrow, will  introduce us to some considerations relating to science  funding  in  this. Should global disease priorities, achievability of  research goals or research quality be guiding funding allocation? As a society, do we need ethical guidelines that would drive future research agendas? Are these guidelines more urgently needed in recession times? 

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Introductions:

• Professor Theresa Marteau  is Director of  the Behaviour and Health Research Unit  ,  the Department of Health  funded policy research unit in behaviour and health. She is also Professor of Health Psychology at King’s College London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health (with the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London). She studied psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.  Her current research focus is upon developing ways of changing behaviour at population levels, drawing on neuroscience, behavioural economics as well as psychology.

• Professor Patrick Sissons  undertook  his  postgraduate  clinical  and  research  training  in  nephrology  and  immunology  in  the Department of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. He then spent three years as an NIH Fogarty Fellow at  the  Scripps  Research  Institute,  where  he  acquired  an  interest  in  the  immunology  and  pathogenesis  of  persistent  virus infections. He was appointed as Reader and then Professor of  Infectious Disease at  the Royal Postgraduate Medical School  in London.  In 1988 he moved  to  the Professorship of Medicine  in  the University of Cambridge and became Regius Professor of Physic and Head of  the School of Clinical Medicine of  the University of Cambridge  in 2005.   Professor Sissons has  served on numerous national grants committees and advisory bodies and was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.

• Speaker: Professor Martin Bobrow  studied medicine  in  South Africa.  He worked  in  Edinburgh  and Oxford,  before  becoming Professor of Medical Genetics  in Amsterdam, London and  then Cambridge  in 1995. He retired  from this post  in 2005. He has been Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, Chairman of ULTRA (Unrelated Living Transplant Regulating Authority), Chairman of  COMARE  (Department  of  Health  Advisory  Committee  on  radiation  in  the  Environment),  Deputy  Chairman  of  the  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and a member of the Medical Research Council and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission.