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Funding Ageing Research - SPARC/NDA
07 March 2008

Programme

LOCATION: Imperial College, London

DATE: Friday 7th March 2008

10.00: Registration and coffee  

11.00: Chair's Introduction, Dr Richard Faragher, Brighton University, Better Living Through Biology.

11.15: NDA and the biological community Professor Alan Walker, Sheffield University 

12.00: Lunch

13.00: Ageing at a snail's pace , Dr Mark Yeoman, SPARC

13.30: A chemical mimic of Interleukin 7: Why should older people care? Dr Richard Aspinall, Imperial College London 

14.00: Coffee

14.30: Your Council, Your Programme, Dr Lesley Heppell, BBSRC

15.15: Applicants Clinic

Applicants provide a brief outline of their proposal (typically no more than a couple of hundred words) and book time with a Research Council or NDA representative to discuss whether the concept is within the remit of the programme and to gain advice on how a proposal might be developed.

17.00: Close (followed by social networking)

You can find some of the presentations of the workshop to download here.

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