13th October 2016 San Francisco, USA
UK and US delegates discuss issues in Plant Health Research during a breakout session (photo credit: Stefania Di Mauro-Nava) When our ancestors began cultivating plants and fungi for food, they brought about a massive change in how human civilizations across the globe developed. The agricultural revolution, which began in the UK, propelled us into the modern […]
16th September 2016 San Francisco, USA
Attention researchers interested in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. The UK’s BBSRC, in collaboration with National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announces a call for collaborative projects involving researchers from the US and UK under the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases programme (EEID). […]
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16th June 2016 San Francisco, USA
NOTE: the text below was created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Silicon Valley Innovation Program Office. For further details, please follow the links to the full proposal calls. These calls for applications are issued under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Other Transaction Solicitation (OTS) launched earlier this year and are targeted at nontraditional […]
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23rd May 2016 San Francisco, USA
Halting the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. It is estimated that around 700,000 people die each year from drug resistant diseases, including drug resistant strains of HIV, TB and malaria. If not tackled, AMR could cause up to 10 million deaths annually by […]
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16th May 2016 San Francisco, USA
Funding Opportunity The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Silicon Valley Office has issued a solicitation for innovators to submit ideas focused on Internet of Things (IoT) Security—HSHQDC-16-R-00035. This call, open until December 11, 2016, is seeking solutions from participants from across the nation (and around the world) addressing one, some or all of the following three areas: […]
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11th April 2016 San Francisco, USA
A number of national government science funding agencies, including the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences are partnering in the Trans-Atlantic Platform 2016 Digging into Data Challenge (T-AP DiD). Digging into Data is a grant competition […]
26th January 2016 San Francisco, USA
This guest blog entry was written by Tomas Coates Ulrichsen who is part of the Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (CSTI) at the University of Cambridge. If you are involved in strategic university-industry partnerships, you are invited to contribute to ongoing research by completing the questionnaire available at the end of this blog piece. Overview […]
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6th November 2015 San Francisco, USA
Uncovering DNA as the building block for life was a long journey, which flourished with the discovery of the double helix by the English-American team of Francis Crick and James Watson (based on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins). Since then, scientists and researchers have been exploring DNA’s role in the development of […]
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8th September 2015 San Francisco, USA
with contributions by Patricia Gruver The exploration of space has gone from science fiction to reality. The 20th century saw a massive expansion in space exploration and technological development, which has continued unabated into the 21st century. The UK is one of the global leaders in the continued advancement of space, reinforcing its commitment to […]