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FacebookWatch video: £67 million investment in bioscience skills and training to help meet economic and social challenges for the future
The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, will today (24 January) announce £67 million of new investment in postgraduate training and development in the biosciences.
The investment, from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), includes support for 14 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) across the UK as well as a number of industrial CASE (iCASE) studentship awards. Over the next three years, the DTPs will support 660 four-year PhD students; in addition the iCASE studentships will support 70 postgraduates…
Call for membership of BBSRC Strategy Advisory Panels
BBSRC is looking to appoint high calibre, committed individuals from the academic and industrial sectors to potentially increase the membership on our Strategy Advisory Panels by between 2 and 4 members in the following areas: Basic bioscience underpinning health, exploiting new ways of working, food security and industrial biotechnology and bioenergy…
Scientist warns of new MRSA threat
An MRSA expert from the University of Bath has warned that a new, more toxic strain of the disease poses a serious threat to people in Britain as it migrates from the United States. MRSA can be split into two groups, based on where a person became infected. Typically, people in Britain become infected with MRSA in a hospital environment, when they are already sick and have a reduced ability to fight the bacteria…
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