Meeting seeks to rally support for research projects

European Union seeks support for top research council

support international research collaborations across Europe, were notorious for their abundance of red tape and complicated formalities. The current instalment, FP6, runs out in December 2006. For the successor, the European Commission has now presented a draft proposal containing some radical new thinking and promising 'significant simplification of its operations compared with its predecessor...

A rally for traumatic brain injury research.

Europe seeks to double research budget

'This increase is not in any way disproportionate in the context of the 3 per cent objective requested of all member states by 2010,' says research commissioner Philippe Busquin. To achieve it he stresses the necessity of increasing research investment by private companies to the equivalent of 2 per cent of GDP and national public research budget increases up to 1 per cent of GDP. 'We expect to...

Design of a Decentralized Reusable Research Database Architecture to Support Data Acquisition in Large Research Projects

The diagnostic and therapeutic processes, as well as the development of new treatments, are hindered by the fragmentation of information which underlies them. In a multi-institutional research study database, the clinical information system (CIS) contains the primary data input. An important part of the money of large scale clinical studies is often paid for data creation and maintenance. The o...

Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis to Support Research Priority Setting in Biomedical Translational Research Projects

Translational research is conducted to achieve a predefined set of economic or societal goals. As a result, investment decisions on where available resources have the highest potential in achieving these goals have to be made. In this paper, we first describe how multicriteria decision analysis can assist in defining the decision context and in ensuring that all relevant aspects of the decision...