Advancing knowledge:
To support research to increase
understanding of health and
disease, and its societal context
Through support of a broad portfolio of biomedical research, we aim to
make a significant difference by advancing understanding of the processes
that underpin health and disease. Our continuing support for excellent
basic research has provided a platform from which to develop clinical
research as a key priority. We also support research that addresses the
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
wider societal and historical context of the biomedical sciences, to help
us to understand the present and learn from the past.
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Objective 1.1 Over the next five years, we intend to:
To provide funding support across the • increase support for clinical and public health
continuum of biomedical research: research, both overseas and in the UK
• basic – to encourage an experimental and
• facilitate the support of interdisciplinary research
exploratory approach to increase understanding
to help accelerate advances in biomedical
of the biological basis of health and disease
science, particularly at the interfaces between
in humans and animals
biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and
• clinical – to increase our support for clinical engineering
research designed to answer questions about
• increase the amount of research we fund that
health and disease
will ultimately lead to health benefits for those
• population health – to support research to improve in the developing world
understanding of the determinants of disease and
• identify key scientific priorities, through
quality of life in populations, and generate a sound
a range of mechanisms, including discussions
evidence base to inform decisions in public health
with our five science Strategy Committees
and healthcare delivery
• continue our support for medical humanities
• medical humanities – to improve our understanding
and consider whether there are new areas in
of the historical, ethical, social and cultural context
which to focus support, through discussions
in which biomedical research and its application
with the Medical Humanities Strategy
take place.
Committee.
We provide a range of grant mechanisms to support
basic and clinical research proposals that address
important questions of relevance to our mission.
We also support major research activity within the
fields of the history of medicine and biomedical ethics.
Through our support of the Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute, and our funding of functional genomics
research, we are making a major contribution to
advancing understanding of the role of genomes
in health and disease.
10 STRATEGIC PLAN 2005–2010 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
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