EPSRC news: Help develop Healthcare Technologies’ Grand Challenges

March 26, 2014

EPSRC’s Healthcare Technologies Theme is inviting the UK’s research and user communities to help them develop a number of Grand Challenges.  They are interested to hear the views of researchers from all disciplines and career stages, as well as clinicians, industry and other relevant stakeholder groups. The Grand Challenges will be used to inform the future strategy and direction of the Theme.
EPSRC have worked with their Strategic Advisory Team to produce an initial list of Grand Challenges in Healthcare Technologies to which engineering, physical, computational and mathematical sciences can make a significant contribution.  They have launched web surveys to collect feedback on this initial list of ten Grand Challenges and you are welcome to complete as many of the ten surveys as you wish.
They hope that these Grand Challenges will:
• Bring the UK’s leading researchers together to develop the next disruptive or transformative healthcare technologies and systems
• Lead to world leading discoveries in engineering, physical, computational and mathematical sciences
• Enable the UK’s national capability to be used to best advantage
• Provide a focus for interdisciplinary and international collaboration
The surveys will be open between early April and early June (see the EPSRC website for more details http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx)