Cancer Research - Europa

Expected results
• A European overview process for project proposals
received by all funding bodies. This will:
• prevent research from being funded for similar work
in multiple projects;
• result in a few large, rather than multiple small data
sets, which are much more likely to yield defi nitive
results.
• Agreement and ranking of the areas most likely to give
results of clinical relevance.
• Agreement on certain issues that must be included in all
proposals (such as validation of the results).
• An audit process of the results of funded research. This
will initially show if the contentions expressed above
with regard to funded research are in fact correct. The
audit outcomes will be accessible to research funders, in
that institutes most likely to complete valuable projects
will be identifi ed (and the converse!).
Potential applications
Aside from the obvious and intended application in breast
cancer funding across Europe, the model created by the
project can be applied to many funding areas where multiple
sources of funding create the same problems as seen in
breast cancer.
Coordinator
Roger Blamey
Breast Institute
Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
Nottingham, United Kingdom
wbartlanm@ncht.trent.nhs.uk
CANCER CONTROL, SURVIVORSHIP AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH
Project number
LSSC-CT-2005-517659
EC contribution
€ 198 640
Duration
30 months
Starting date
01/01/2006
Instrument
SSA
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