UPDATE - Issue 32 - Winter 2008
Grant Awards - March 2008
Three years ago we took the decision to increase the amount we award to research and training grants by 10% per year, and to date we have exceeded this: last year we gave over £608,000, which represented a 24% increase on the 2006 awards, which themselves were a 33% increase over the previous year. Our target this year is £670,000 but whether we achieve this will depend entirely on the standard of the applications: only truly worthwhile projects will receive grants, for there are many other demands on our funds.
Last autumn we placed a series of advertisements in professional magazines inviting applications for both Training and Research grants in the fields of prostate disease. To date over 30 applications for research have been received and these are now under peer review by the members of our Medical and Research Sub-group, all very eminent professionals in the urological field. Their recommendations will be put to our Trustees in early March and the awards both for research and training will be announced in April: full details in the next Update.