UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is organising a Life Sciences Trade Mission to Japan in February 2012. The mission includes visiting Nano Tech 2012 in Tokyo. All UK registered pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medtech and healthcare companies are eligible to apply for the mission. Benefits of Participating Networking with Japan’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, healthcare companies, strategic...

         UKTI Life Sciences Mission to Japan 13-17 February 2012 Please note the deadline for applications is Wednesday 30th November Click here for applications for the Life Sciences Mission to Japan on 13-17 Feb 2012 Click here to view the full flyer Cost: £1,110 - mission participation to seminars and networking receptions...

Professor Gareth Williams Cardiff Institute of Society and Health 'Intense delineations of territory, health, well-being and connecting communities' Synopsis: The resilience of communities has never been a hotter topic, given the current backdrop of financial dire straits in Britain. Are the coalition's policies for communities to do with a genuine empowerment, or the latest step...

The Centre of Excellence in mobile Applications and Services will be hosting a Seminar entitled ‘Transforming Healthcare with Mobile Technology’ on the 22nd February 2012. The event will be held at the Glamorgan Conference Centre, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, and will include informative keynotes relating to m-health as well as remote monitoring demonstrations followed by...

 Brazil Inward Sustainable Health Mission - 22nd February 2012 UKTI will be supporting an inward delegation of senior representatives from the Brazilian public and private health sector, who will be visiting the UK to learn about sustainable development in health systems. A comprehensive programme has been prepared by our Consulate General in São Paulo, and...

Professor Marcus Longley and Amy Simpson Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care (WIHSC) ‘How would patients regulate new medicines?’ Synopsis: A recent Citizens Jury consisting of people with serious and rare disorders spent five days considering how the risks and benefits of new medicines should be assessed. What factors were relevant, and how should...

  The NHS is the UK's largest customer of medicines and medical technologies. In addition to delivering high-quality healthcare, it has a great role to play in strengthening the country's economy, contributing directly to the success of Britain's thriving life sciences sector. Close working between the NHS and industry – including devices, diagnostics, pharma and...

Click here to download the event flyer.  Registration: £50 +VAT The Electronics, Sensors, Photonics and HealthTech and Medicines Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs) are to hold a workshop in London on Tuesday 6th March 2012. This workshop brings together leading clinicians and sensor technology developers. It builds on the significant interest in the sensing community in addressing healthcare applications. It...

Dr Keith Bodger Senior Lecturer (Clinical) in Medicine, University of Liverpool Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool Synopsis: TBC (Dr Keith Bodger has a range of Health Services Research interests, including primary research in the areas of dyspepsia, upper gastrointestinal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease and related secondary research (cost-effectiveness analysis). Primary research...

Professor David Cohen Faculty of Health,Sport and Science, Glamorgan University ‘The WILMA study (Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults): An example of the use of economics in clinical trials.’ Synopsis: The Welsh Health Economics Support Service (WHESS) in one of the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR) infrastructure support groups - set up...