Advanced Materials in Medicine (AMM)
Latest highlights including events, announcements, Royce updates, fellowships and funding opportunities.
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CDT in Advanced Biomedical Materials - Call for Studentship Applications Cohort 3
Proposals are now welcomed for the September 2021 intake, to attract at least ten top class graduate students. They will begin their taught unit training in the areas of ‘Research Methods’, ‘Clinical Applications of Biomaterials’, ‘Imaging, Characterisation, and Key Manufacturing Techniques’ and ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ in September 2021. Similar to those recruited in previous years, students will be recruited from a range of postgraduate backgrounds including disciplines such as biomaterials, dental technology, biomedical science, bioengineering and chemistry.
If you are interested, please email Dr Susan Hogan, who is the EPSRC CDT in Advanced Biomedical Materials Project Manager, for relevant documents. Please begin discussions with your industry/academic partners now so as to ensure you have the optimum amount of time to submit your proposal. Please note that the deadline for proposals will be Friday 30th October 2020.
In order to help you prepare your submissions, there will be a briefing session for potential project supervisors (information in Events section below).
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Access to integrated multidisciplinary facilities for materials and biomaterials
The Central European Initiative and The Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium invites proposals for access to integrated multidisciplinary facilities for materials and biomaterials. This enables scientists from all over the world to access over fifty different and complementary state of the art techniques and support laboratories.
Closing date: 1 October 2020
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Take Part in the Pankhurst's BE Strategy Survey
Your participation in this short survey will help identify the bottlenecks and hurdles that academics encounter in engaging and developing partnerships with Industry at the University. Please take this opportunity to highlight the barriers that you have encountered in seeking partnership with industry and knowledge transfer, and to help us shaping the business engagement strategy of the Pankhurst Institute.
This survey should not take more than 5-10 minutes to complete, it is intended to be anonymous, and the results will be shared with the Pankhurst leadership team.
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Invitation to submit a manuscript for a special issue of 'International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing' entitled "Soft and Green Manufacturing Applications"
(Impact Factor: 4.561)
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Stretchable/flexible electronics, optics, structures and sensors
* Soft/green robotics and actuators
* Bio printing/manufacturing processes
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 30th September
Link to submit
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CDT in Advanced Biomedical Materials Briefing Sessions
The deadline for project applications to the CDT in Advanced Biomedical Materials is 30th October 2020. In order to assist all potential projects and co-supervisors, there will be two information sessions that will include a brief presentation on the CDT and project requirements followed by questions. Please note, the Zoom details will be provided once you’ve chosen a session.
Please contact Maria McGloin to book your place.
When: Briefing Session 1 is on 2nd September - 11.00 am - 11.30 am
Briefing Session 2 is on 9th September - 11.00 am – 11.30 am
Where: Zoom
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TISSUE TALKS: Weekly Webinar Series hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Click here for the September schedule.
When: Every Wednesday at 3pm
Where: Zoom
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Bioreactors and Growth Environments for Tissue Engineering Training Course
This interactive training course is spread across 3 days with flexibility for online attendance, targeted at postgraduate students (MSc and PhD) in industry and academia. See this flyer for more details and click here for the draft programme.
When: 16th, 17th and 20th November 2020
Where: Online and at Keele University
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Versus Arthritis Career development fellowships
Any non-clinical post-doctoral researcher or allied health care professional at an eligible UK institution can apply. Please note, medically or surgically qualified individuals that are practising medicine, aren't eligible to apply for this scheme. Projects must demonstrate a clear relevance to the ambitions of Versus Arthritis.
Deadline: 9 September 2020
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
This scheme offers recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers, working in some of the best research environments in the world. Applications are encouraged from members of multidisciplinary research groups.
Preliminary application deadline: 29 September 2020, 17:00
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MRC Experimental Medicine Funding Call
You can apply for academically-led experimental medicine projects, conducted in humans, based round a clearly articulated gap in understanding of human pathophysiology, with a clear path to clinical impact. These grants will produce new mechanistic insights, identifying opportunities to modify disease pathways and enabling novel therapeutic or diagnostic approaches for future development. All disease areas and interventions are welcomed by the Panel.
The application must involve an experimental intervention/challenge in humans, perturbing the system to explore disease mechanism. The challenge may be, but is not limited to, pharmacological, immunological, physiological, psychological, infectious etc.
Please contact Nicola Telfer if you intend to apply.
Closing date: 16 September 2020
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University of Manchester-University of Melbourne Dual PhDs
The call is for project proposals to establish pairs of jointly awarded/dual PhD research projects between The University of Manchester and The University of Melbourne. The aim is to support 12 studentships in total (6 pairs of projects), with 6 funded by Manchester and 6 funded by Melbourne.
The jointly awarded/ dual PhD candidates, subsequently recruited to the successful projects, will form the second cohort of the Melbourne-Manchester international research training group as part of the Global Doctoral Research Network (GOLDEN).
The guidelines for project proposals and details on how to apply can be found on the Dual Awards webpage. The contact at Manchester is Sarah James-Ford, Postgraduate Research and Researcher Development Coordinator, Graduate Education.
Deadline for project proposals: 8am 26 October 2020
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IADR/AADR William J. Gies Award
The William J. Gies Award is given for the best paper published in the Journal of Dental Research during the preceding year. Nominations are made by individuals, by the Gies Award Committee, and by the Editor of the JDR. Most IADR/AADR awards are restricted to certain disciplines of research, but the JDR Gies Award is one of the few open to anyone who publishes in the Journal of Dental Research.
The Gies Award consists of a $1,000 monetary prize and a plaque which will be presented at either the Opening Ceremonies of the IADR/AADR/CADR General Session & Exhibition.IADR/AADR members are invited to send nominations for outstanding papers published in the JDR between July 2019 and June 2020.
Deadline: 15 January 2021
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IADR Osteology Foundation New Investigator Award in Oral Tissue Regeneration
Funding research into all aspects of oral tissue regeneration is a core task of the Osteology Foundation. Applications will be accepted from new investigators for one competitive award of up to $75,000 provided to the recipient. Research topics falling within the scope of the award are:
- Hard and soft tissue biology: clinical aspects
- Novel bone and soft tissue substitute materials
- Local factors affecting oral tissue regeneration
- Systemic diseases with an impact on oral tissue regeneration
- Pharmacological aspects of oral tissue regeneration
- Inflammatory conditions, e.g. periodontitis or peri-implantitis
Deadline: 5 February 2021
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IADR GlaxoSmithKline Innovation in Oral Care Awards
The cAs a leader in consumer oral care, GSK recognizes the need for pioneers to produce innovative technologies that can be used routinely by the public to maintain and improve oral health and quality of life. The Award(s) is intended to help investigators pursue innovative and novel research in oral care, above and beyond the bounds of traditional dental research.
Three competitive Award(s), of up to $50,000 each, will be provided to recipients to advance oral care programs directed toward the development of innovative and novel compounds, biomaterials or devices that can be used ultimately at the public health level. Examples of areas of interest could include, but not be limited to:
- inhibition or removal of biofilms etc. adhering to natural or artificial surfaces,
- modification of those surfaces to inhibit biofilms and other deposits, stains and odors,
- adhesives for removable prosthetic devices,
- inhibition of tooth surface loss and gingival recession, and amelioration of their effects, and
- counteracting the oral effects of dry mouth, systemic illness, hormonal disturbances or physiological aging.
The Award(s) will be provided in the form of an unrestricted research grant which carries no obligation to the recipient’s organization for licensure, patenting, or transfer confidential information, although GSK may discuss the possibility of future collaboration with some applicants.
Deadline: 5 February 2021
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NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership: Covid-19 cardiovascular disease flagship projects
Approved projects will address key questions such as:
1. the nature and importance of cardiovascular complications in Covid-19 infection, and how they could be prevented
2. understanding why patients with heart and circulatory diseases are at greater risk of adverse outcomes
3. the short and longer-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with heart and circulatory diseases
4. mechanistic insights into individual responses to the Covid-19 infection, in particular its effect on myocardial and vascular function.
Closing date: Open response mode (no deadline)
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Wellcome: Innovator Awards
These awards support researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health
Closing date: Open response mode (no deadline)
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UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund: Agile Response call to address COVID-19
Proposals are invited for short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak in Low and Middle Income Countries.
UKRI will support excellent proposals which meet at least one of the following:
• New research or innovation with a clear pathway to impact on policy or practice that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, response to, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country context.
• Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential for impact in developing countries.
• Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use.
Closing date: Open response mode (no deadline)
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UKRI: Get funding for ideas that address COVID-19
Proposals are invited for short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. UKRI will support excellent proposals up to 18 months duration which meet at least one of the following:
- new research or innovation with a clear impact pathway that has the potential (within the period of the grant) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.
- supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential
- gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use.
Closing date: Open response mode (no deadline)
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Updates from the Henry Royce Institute
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New world-leading research facility for lab-based x-ray CT
A new EPSRC National Research Facility in Lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography will launch in November 2020. The NRF will support industry and academia in running cutting-edge 3D imaging experiments with facilities available at Manchester, Warwick, Southampton and UCL.
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Careers | X-ray CT NRF Project Manager
The new X-ray CT NRF is seeking applicants for a Project Manager to lead the central administration and financial management of the facility. The role is based in Manchester and in the initial set-up period, the focus will be on implementing operational procedures, equipment procurement and staff recruitment.
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