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• Launch of new classroom resources on clinical research to support UK science curricula

12 November 2008

Bottles of lemonade, a controversial Beatles song and holiday sun cream are being enlisted to help school children understand how new medicines are developed. The ingredients are part of a new s...

• New standard agreement for speeding up medical technology industry-sponsored clinical research launched

6 November 2008

The Department of Health for England, on behalf of the UK Health Departments, with the Association for British Healthcare Industries today launched a model Agreement to speed up the process of sett...

• IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Deadline for inclusion of ongoing studies in CCRN topics into the NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio

31 October 2008

For the past 18 months the NIHR CRN Coordinating Centre (CRN CC) has been working to re-define the NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio as a consequence of the introduction of the NIHR Comprehensi...

• UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Units website launched

30 October 2008

A new comprehensive online resource listing national expertise in the design and conduct of clinical trials has been launched. The UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Units website provides, for the firs...

• Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Network web site consumer pages launched

30 October 2008

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Network web site consumer pages launched The Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) Network has launched a new Patients and Public area o...