Notes & briefings

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

2012

The use of animals in research and updating regulation
Hosted by Lord Willis of Knaresborough
1 February 2012

Briefing - Animal research (PDF)

Annual dinner
with Professor Sir John Bell and George Freeman MP
30 January 2012

Agenda
Briefing - Health research in 2012 (PDF)

2011

Research in the health and social care bill
25 October 2011

Health and social care bill - Lord's committee stage - briefing on research ammendments (PDF)

AGM and discussion: Proposals to establish a single regulator for health research
Hosted by Dr Julian Huppert MP
13 July 2011

Briefing note (PDF)

The impact of the health reforms on public health research
Breakfast hosted by Dr Julian Huppert MP
28 June 2011

Chairs’ summit to discuss health research
14 June 2011

Briefing

Annual dinner
with Professor Sir Michael Rawlins FMedSci
Sponsored by Margot James MP
28 February 2011
 
Briefing on regulation review (PDF)

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2010

Showcasing UK medical research – working together for patients, society and the economy
Summer reception
19 July 2010

Speakers:
Lord Turnberg, chair of the APPG on Medical Research
David Willets, minister of state for universities and science
Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust
Claire Daniels, cancer survivor
Julian Huppert MP, (host) member of APPG on Medical Research
Members' Dining Room, House of Commons

News release | programme  

Annual dinner
with Dr Venki Ramakrishnan
23 February 2010

Agenda

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2009

Mental health research
Breakfast meeting supported by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
9 December 2009

Speakers:
Dr Lynne Jones MP (chair)
Simon Denegri, chief exececutive, AMRC
Professor Dinesh Bhugra, president, Royal College of Psychiatrists,
Professor Clair Chilvers, Mental Health Research UK

Background briefing

Celebrating the UK’s achievements in medical research – benefiting patients, society and the economy
Summer reception
14 July 2009

Speakers:
Dr Evan Harris MP, vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Research
Lord Turnberg, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Research
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chief executive, Medical Research Council
Professor Sir John Bell, president, Academy of Medical Sciences
Harpal Kumar, chief executive, Cancer Research UK
Members’ Dining Room, House of Commons

News release | Summary document 

The Office for Life Sciences and its implications for medical research charities
Joint meeting of the APPG on Medical Research and APPG Breast Cancer 
 
24 June 2009

Office for Life Sciences presentation

Dr Robert Sullivan, director, Office for Life Sciences
Dr Julia Wilson, head of research programmes & projects, Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Dr Sophie Petit-Zeman, head of external relations, Association of Medical Research Charities

Quintessential ‘Counting for Health’, smart PQs, and statistical surgery
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and APPG Medical Research together with Medical Research Council’s Biostatistics Unit
6 May 2009

Programme

Patient data
Breakfast meeting 

4 March 2009

Patient data Q&A

AGM and annual dinner
21 January 2009

Agenda

Minutes

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2008

The human fertilisation and embryology bill and human 'admixed' embryos
6 May 2008

Meeting notes

Invitiation

Professor Martin Bobrow FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge
Dr Lyle Armstrong, Institute of Human Genetics University of Newcastle upon Tyne International Centre for Life (TBC)
Professor Tariq Enver, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Professor Peter Braude FMedSci, Director of the Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis Programme
Geraldine Peacock, former Charity Commissioner for England and Wales and Vice President of the Parkinson’s Disease Society

What will the new UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation in London mean for research and patients?
30 January 2008

Meeting notes

Press release

Professor Mark Walport, director, The Wellcome Trust 
Nick Winterton, executive director, Medical Research Council

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2007

A healthy future for UK medical research
Dinner
20 November 2007

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FMedSci, chief executive, Medical Research Council
Professor John Bell PMedSci, president, Academy of Medical Sciences and Chair OSCHR
Harpal Kumar, chief executive, Cancer Research UK
Simon Denegri, chief executive, Association of Medical Research Charities

Pandemic influenza
26 March 2007

Pandemic influenza: science into policy
Royal Society & Academy of Medical Sciences

Half-baked or fully cooked: what does the Cooksey review mean for UK health research?
25 January 2007 

Meeting notes

An MRC perspective  
Professor Colin Blakemore, chief executive, Medical Research Council

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2006

More than just meets the eye: the economic and social benefits of medical and health research
24 October 2006

Meeting notes

Medical research: assessing the benefits to society  
Professor Martin Roland, director, National Primary Care Research & Development Centre, University of Manchester

Measuring the returns to medical R&D in the UK  
Professor Alistair McGuire, chair of health economics, London School of Economics

Welfare and regulation of research using animals
19 July 2006

NC3Rs - An overview of the UK 3Rs Centre 
Dr Vicky Robinson, chief executive, NC3Rs

Legal responsibilities and regulation
Dame Nancy Rothwell, professor or physiology, University of Manchester

Second reading
26 June 2006
Charities Bill
(scroll down towards the bottom of the page)

Single budget for health research
16 May 2006

Meeting notes

The Medical Research Council and the single health research fund  
Professor Colin Blakemore, chief executive, Medical Research Council

Lords debate
11 May 2006  
Medical research and its science base in the UK 

The uses and abuses of data about patients
28 March 2006

Meeting notes

Personal health data in medical research  
Professor Robert Souhami, emeritus professor of medicine, University College London

Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
Academy of Medical Sciences

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2005

APPG on Medical Research
Inaugural meeting
13 December 2005  

Agenda

Meeting notes

Update on the impact of the EU clinical trials directive on non-commercial research
Dr Richard Sullivan, director of clinical programmes, Cancer Research UK

The importance of partnership & the UKCRC
Dr Mark Walport, director, The Wellcome Trust

The challenges from the perspective of a small research funding charity
Catherine Arkley, director, Children’s Liver Disease Foundation

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