Life Sciences Landing Page
Topic outline
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The Life Sciences Initiative is a cross-faculty multidisciplinary initiative working with partners from the local community, higher education, NHS and industry to make a significant contribution to the health of people at regional, national and international levels. We aim to create a unique Life Sciences cluster in East London.
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Use this space to share information and resources, ask questions and be part of the LSI network.
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The LSI runs dedicated development activities, coordinated by Dr Ele Groves, who is available for 1:1 advice.
Ele works with the Researcher Development team who run the suite of workshops available for PGRs and ECRs.
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Join us for the official Prize Giving Ceremony and Exhibition of the Life Sciences Image Awards 2019 on Thursday 27th June, in the Neuron Pod, Whitechapel. Where our panel of judges – including Wellcome Image Awards Coordinator Sabrina Taner - will announce the winner for each category and the overall prizewinner.
The final stop in the Life Science Image Awards 2018 exhibition tour, shortlisted submissions will also be shown at a variety of QMUL events prior to the Prize Giving. Vote for your favourite shortlisted image as part of the “People’s Choice” award at the following events:
- Festival of Communities, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June
- Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival, Wednesday 19th June
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Head to our website for up to date news and events.
Past events:
For Further information please contact the LSI Office on lifesciences@qmul.ac.uk.
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Three virtual LSI research centres and one cross-cutting centre support life sciences research at QMUL. These are:
- Genomic Health (led by Mark Caulfield (William Harvey Research Institute), Panos Deloukas (William Harvey Research Institute), Vardhman Rakyan (Blizard Institute), and David van Heel (Blizard Institute));
- Bioengineering (led by David Lee (School of Engineering and Material Science));
- Mind and society (led by Magda Osman (School of Biological and Chemical Sciences), deputy lead David Adger, (School of Languages Linguistics and Film), Stefan Priebe (Wolfson Institute), Marcus Pearce(School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science));
- Cross-cutting Centre for Computational biology (led by Conrad Bessant (School of Biological and Chemical Sciences) and Claude Chelala (Barts Cancer Institute)).
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Each year the LSI supports 3-6 PhD students to undertake interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects. We currently have a cohort of 18 students across all 3 faculties.More information about the programme, including how to apply, is available on our website.
If you are a member of the programme, additional training and resources are available via the link below.
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- Share tools and resources using Toolbox
- Get support costing a grant application
- Applying for EU funding? Contact the EU team
- Use Research Professional and Euraxxis to keep track of funding opportunities
- Contact the Business Development office for support with interactions with industrial partners
- IP or commercialisation queries? Contact QM Innovations
- Get support with the Public Engagement and PPI sections of grant application forms
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The Centre for Public Engagement provides advice, training and support to projects and activities that involve the public, including patients and the local community. We give advice in seeking external funding and can discuss how to get started, design an activity or maximise its impact.
Sarah Gifford supports the LSI in local community engagement with research.
Follow links below for advice on:
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