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ViewBritish Science Association names honorary fellows for 2019

Fellows include shadow science minister Chi Onwurah and former universities minister David Willetts

ViewCancer Research UK sets out priorities for 2020

Charity’s board members promise new strategy and another round of £20m grand challenges funding

ViewAlzheimer’s charity sets out priorities for ‘dementia moonshot’

Report comes after Conservative government pledges to double research spending in the area

ViewEPSRC launches review of doctoral education

Review will consider a range of aspects, including research outputs, student diversity and support

ViewR&D sector backs Wellcome’s call to reform research culture

Sector leaders react to charity’s survey revealing high levels of job stress and insecurity

ViewCell and gene therapy UK trials ‘almost doubled’ in 2019

Database shows that increasing numbers of commercial organisations are sponsoring such trials in the country

ViewGrowth in UK tech investment outstrips US and China

A total of £10.1bn was invested in sector in 2019—a £3.1bn increase since 2018

ViewNC3Rs appoints board chair to help shape strategy

Kevin Shakesheff joins the organisation from the University of Nottingham

ViewWellcome report reveals ‘deep concerns’ over research culture

‘Shocking’ survey finds fewer than a third of researchers feel secure pursuing a research career

ViewAHRC and Wellcome launch 2020 Medical Humanities Awards

National award celebrates contribution of arts and humanities to improving health and wellbeing

ViewInnovate UK launches grants to trial new rail technologies

Up to £9.4 million is available to organisations through the Small Business Research Initiative

ViewNuffield Foundation announces next Strategic Fund deadline

Social wellbeing grants of between £1-3m set to be awarded throughout 2020-2022

ViewUKRI extends deadline for Mark Walport’s replacement

Applicants now have until 20 January to apply for role of chief executive officer

ViewWellcome appoints two members of executive team

Katie Anastasi-Frankovics appointed director of innovations while Karen Chadwick becomes finance director

ViewAerospace trade body welcomes next president

Tony Wood joins ADS Group from Meggitt, where he was chief executive for two years

ViewESRC reveals transatlantic social innovation winners

International collaboration provides €5m for projects to ‘deliver social innovations through new research’

ViewESRC announces £2.8m for training on research methods

Funding will go to National Centre for Research Methods

ViewGurumurthy joins Nesta as chief executive

Charity is ‘uniquely positioned’ to generate solutions to major challenges of the 2020s, he says

ViewAcademy calls for £25m scheme to protect NHS research

Report from Academy of Medical Sciences identifies ‘widening gap’ between the NHS and universities

ViewWellcome publishes Dora guidance

Charity outlines how institutions should abide by declaration's principles

ViewUK-US collaboration aims to promote healthy ageing

UK Research and Innovation and US National Academy of Medicine will support early-stage innovations

ViewUK-German funding for collaborative research projects

Arts and Humanities Research Council and German Research Foundation jointly fund 19 research projects

ViewBA fellows outline key challenges at the turn of the decade

Rise of China, immigration, environment, political identity and technological change seen as burning societal issues

ViewUK partners with South Korea to tackle severe asthma

Consortium aims to improve understanding of how to tailor treatments and interventions to individual needs

ViewDNA sequencer firms abandon takeover deal

Proposed $1.2bn move was under scrutiny by competition watchdogs in the UK and US

ViewNERC to co-fund £5 million virtual satellite-data centre

The centre will aim to train 50 new PhD researchers and help fight climate change

View£15 million for applied food science

Businesses can apply for funding to study data-driven solutions to problems in agriculture

View£25 million for business innovation in STEM

Innovate UK funding is for ‘game-changing’ business projects in technology, science or engineering

ViewWellcome increases spending on science and innovation

Charity spent £1.13bn in past year, including £839m on science and £130m on innovation

ViewUK companies show strong growth in R&D spending

Nation’s businesses a rare bright spot as Europe lags behind China and US