European Science Foundation calls for more and better medical imaging research
The European Science Foundation (ESF) has called for greater collaboration across Europe on research on medical imaging. In October 2007, the medical section of the ESF, the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC), published a science policy briefing on “Medical Imaging for Improved Patient Care”, based on a workshop attended by key experts in the field of medical imaging. This policy briefing emphasises the great potential of medical imaging, outlines European issues and challenges and presents policy recommendations. More (pdf)
30. January 2012
Improving Medical Treatment Requires a Risk-based Approach to the Regulation of Clinical Trials
Current EU legislation represents a major hurdle to improving medical treatment due to the straight-jacket of EU legislation that the 2001 Clinical Trials Directive imposes, a group of leading European medical scientists charged today in a position paper1 issued in Brussels and Strasbourg. [more]
17. January 2012
Professor Liselotte Højgaard, Chair of the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) named Denmark’s #1 "most academically prestigious" by "Dagens Medicin", a top Danish independent health newspaper.
“In recent years, Liselotte Højgaard has been chair of the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC). This is a platform that she has used really well. With ease she sits in the vast bureaucracy of EMRC steering the great nations such as Germany and France.” Original article... [more]
24. November 2011
The European Science Foundation’s EMRC calls for the common use of the Health Research Classification System across Europe
The European Science Foundation’s (ESF) membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe, the EMRC (http://www.esf.org/emrc), has today released an ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing (SPB) highlighting the need to utilise the Health and Research Classification System (HRCS) as the... [more]
17. October 2011
Nature Immunology publishes ESF recommendations for research into link between genes and environment in chronic inflammatory diseases
The dramatic and continuing proliferation of chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and allergy among industrialized countries is now accepted as being caused by a combination of environmental and individual genetic risk factors. [more]
4. October 2011
Strasbourg - CNRS senior researcher Jules Hoffmann awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
The 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Jules Hoffmann, a French citizen native of Luxembourg, CNRS senior researcher emeritus and professor at the university of Strasbourg, jointly with Bruce A. Beutler for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity. [more]
28. September 2011
Europe ‘punches above its weight’ in biomedical research, despite limited funding
The European Science Foundation’s EMRC publishes new White Paper assessing the current status of biomedical research in Europe in a global context. [more]
28. September 2011
FENS and ESF - new partners in a series of high visibility neuroscience conferences
FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) and ESF are new partners in a series of high visibility neuroscience conferences. Find out more in the following article, written by Lars Kristiansen, ESF Science Officer in our Biomedical sciences Unit (EMRC) and published in the current FENS... [more]
29. November 2010
Male reproductive problems may add to falling fertility rates
European Science Foundation publishes new report on male reproductive health [more]
25. November 2010
European Science Foundation cancels research funding calls
The European Science Foundation (ESF) will not launch three funding calls pending more progress towards its merger with the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs). At the ESF annual assembly last week ESF member organisations decided to put certain activities on hold during the current... [more]
11. October 2010
Virtual research institute needed to unlock RNA’s promise, say scientists
European Science Foundation reports on the future of ribonucleic acid research [more]
ESF provides the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).