The NanoKTN has announced that its Nanomite Focus Group is organising an event to help industry and academia secure European funding for biomaterials in medicine and healthcare.
Nanomite (Nano-Structured Materials in Tissue Engineering) looks at the advances in nano-structured materials for use in tissue engineering, with a view to ensuring the UK remains at the forefront of the technology area.
Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field that applies expertise in clinical medicine, engineering and life sciences.
Novel tissue replacement parts and implementation strategies have been developed, which aim to improve health and quality of life by restoring, maintaining or enhancing tissue and organ function.
Current challenges include developing more complex functionality being integrated into novel tissues and for rational regulation with product development.
Nanomite will enable the UK tissue engineering community to take a lead in both the advancement and regulation of this field.
Speakers at this event will describe their own successes with European Framework funding and the challenges they faced to achieve this.
Representatives from the UK National Contact Points (NCPs) for Health and NMP (Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies) will then present the European funding opportunities available in the upcoming FP7 call (July 2010) and detail the approaches that should be taken to build a strong consortium and write an effective funding proposal.
This free event will be of value to partners looking to join a consortium, build their consortium, or are looking to sharpen their proposal for an existing consortium.
The event, organised in partnership with the Chemistry Innovation and Materials KTNs, will be held in Runcorn, UK, on Thursday 12 August 2010.
