In this interview with ResearchMedia, Dr Stephane Berghmans, ESF's Head of the Biomedical Sciences Unit, remarks on how this important mission can boost other sectors by generating social benefits which in turn translate to economic growth. [more]
The International Society for Child Indicators Research (ISCI) in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF) is organizing an international mentoring workshop for PhD students. [more]
Current EU legislation represents a major hurdle to improving medical treatment due to the straight-jacket of EU legislation that the 2001 Clinical Trials Directive imposes, a group of leading European medical scientists charged today in a position paper1 issued in Brussels and Strasbourg. [more]
“In recent years, Liselotte Højgaard has been chair of the European Medical Research Councils (MED (formerly EMRC)). This is a platform that she has used really well. With ease she sits in the vast bureaucracy of MED (formerly EMRC) steering the great nations such as Germany and France.” Original article... [more]
The European Science Foundation’s (ESF) membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe, the MED (formerly EMRC) (http://www.esf.org/emrc), has today released an ESF-MED (formerly EMRC) Science Policy Briefing (SPB) highlighting the need to utilise the Health and Research Classification System (HRCS) as the... [more]
The dramatic and continuing proliferation of chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and allergy among industrialized countries is now accepted as being caused by a combination of environmental and individual genetic risk factors. [more]
The 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Jules Hoffmann, a French citizen native of Luxembourg, CNRS senior researcher emeritus and professor at the university of Strasbourg, jointly with Bruce A. Beutler for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity. [more]
The European Science Foundation’s MED (formerly EMRC) publishes new White Paper assessing the current status of biomedical research in Europe in a global context. [more]
FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) and ESF are new partners in a series of high visibility neuroscience conferences. Find out more in the following article, written by Lars Kristiansen, ESF Science Officer in our Biomedical sciences Unit (MED (formerly EMRC)) and published in the current FENS... [more]
European Science Foundation publishes new report on male reproductive health [more]