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Leading Biomedical scientists the world over believe that stem cell research holds the key to curing society’s most intractable diseases including Parkinson’s, Alzeimer’s, multiple sclerosis and heart attack. The scientific and therapeutic benefits to be gained are potentially enormous.
The UK is a recognised global leader in all aspects of stem cell research and in an ideal position to advance stem cell techniques into the clinic for the benefit of billions of people around the globe.
But progress is being hindered by a critical gap between currently available government and private funding and the countless promising research projects in need of financial assistance.
The UK Stem Cell Foundation (UKSCF) was established in 2005 to support the speedy transfer of promising stem cell techniques from the laboratory bench to patient bedsides.
We aim to achieve this by:
- Generating a £100m funding endowment to directly fund stem cell research projects in UK medical schools, universities and hospitals.
- Funding projects where research has indicated potential for direct clinical benefit to patients in the short term (2-5 years); seizing opportunities to fund innovative projects as they arise.
- Promoting UK scientific, ethical and commercial leadership in this vital area.
- Facilitating stem cell networks, dissemination of new ideas and knowledge.
- Developing an ethical regulatory framework as medical advances occur
- Addressing the broad range of associated issues - scientific, ethical, political and economical - comprehensively and directly.
- Operating a lean, cost effective administration, under the direction of an eminent Board of Trustees and with careful concise and intensive project management.
The creation of the Foundation has been personally endorsed by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as well as by the Royal Society of Medicine, Medical Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and by twenty leading research universities, including Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Imperial, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, UCL and York.
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