National Institute of Health Research Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Raashid Luqmani, DM, FRCP, Professor Please address correspondence to: Prof. Raashid Luqmani, NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford OX3 7HE...

The recently enacted Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P .L. 95-602) amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) . This new Institute has charged with the prime responsibility of providing the required knowledge for defining needs, and of identifying the means for improving servi...

The National Institute for Health Research, Research Design Service (NIHR RDS) was set up to increase the number and proportion of high quality applications for funding for applied and patient focused health and social care research. Access to specialist expertise and collaboration between researchers and health practitioners at the proposal development stage is crucial for high quality applied...

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for S...

GT is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South London at King’s College London Foundation Trust. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR or the Department of Health. GT acknowledges fi nancial support from the Department of Health v...

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has identified a gap in the number of people it funds who are on a pathway to become future leaders of clinical trials, compared to how much the NIHR invests in clinical trials. In order to support the clinical trials of tomorrow, it is vital that the right people are supported now to lead these trials. To address this issue, NIHR organised a wo...

1Section of Immunity, Infection and Inflammation, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; 2Ocular Immunology Program, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Western Australia, Western Australia, 6009 Australia; and Centre for Experimental Immunology, Lions Eye Institute, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia; 3Aca...

The following information is missing from the Funding section: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement N° 242095. The complete, correct funding information is as follows: This article summarizes independent research funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP...