Following the success of last year’s reception we are hosting another on 19 July.
With 226 new MPs and a new coalition government, our reception will give them the chance to meet us and find out more about medical research and, for those Parliamentarians who already know us, a chance to catch up and find out the latest work we are doing.
This years’ reception will tell a story about the lifecycle of medical research: from underpinning science to clinical practice, encompassing epidemiology, applied and translational research, policy and infrastructure projects.
We invited the APPG on Medical Research members to nominate researchers they believed would bring research alive for Parliamentarians, giving them a glimpse of the bigger picture, how each piece of the jigsaw comes together to have a real impact on patients’ lives.
With an overwhelming response of excellent applications, an expert panel of judges were given the difficult task of choosing the best posters to represent UK medical research.
Congratulations to all applicants for an excellent response. The selected posters will be presented in Parliament from 4pm to 6pm on Monday 19 July.
The successful posters were:
Academy of Medical Sciences – Can legislation benefit the public's health: the example of smokefree England
Alzheimer's Research Trust – Genetics and Alzheimer's Disease: a path to new treatments?
Breakthrough Breast Cancer – A new direction in cancer drug development
Breast Cancer Campaign – Harnessing white blood cells of the immune system to treat breast and other cancers
British Heart Foundation – Aeronautics flies in to fight heart disease
The BUPA Foundation – Treatment of Childhood obesity by retraining eating behaviour: a randomised trial
Cancer Research UK – Developing a new treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation – Diabetes – Building today for a cure tomorrow
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity – The legacy of life-saving research at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Medical Research Council – A third more people could be treated for HIV in Africa if lab tests are dropped
Medical Research Council – The MRC is the lead public sector organisation for Experimental Medicine
Multiple Sclerosis Society – Is it possible to prevent multiple sclerosis through sunshine and vitamin D?
Myeloma UK – A new national clinical trials network for myeloma: a novel collaborative approach
Ovarian Cancer Action – Reversing chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer
Pharmacy Practice Research Trust – Medicines for early dementia – Reaching the unmeasured outcomes
RNID – Cochlear implants – which children will benefit? How charity-funded research helps to improve national health policies
RP Fighting Blindness – Clinical trial of gene therapy for inherited blindness
St Peter's Trust for Kidney, Bladder and Prostate Research – Transforming the diagnostic and therapeutic pathway of prostate cancer
The Stroke Association – Enhancing Communication in aphasia through gesture
UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation – Creating a world-leading centre for medical science and innovation
Wellcome Trust – UK Biobank
25 May 2010