The Wellcome Trust's Biomedical Ethics UK Programme has shifted its emphasis away from the funding of small projects to the support of centres and collaborations.

Following a review of the Biomedical Ethics UK Programme, funding at the Trust is changing. The priority for the next academic year is to fund Strategic Awards in Biomedical Ethics, though the scheme is flexible to accommodate applicants who wish to apply for other schemes.

Strategic Awards in Biomedical Ethics provide core and research support for established groups of scholars within UK or Irish universities. It is an open competition for all those institutions with a demonstrable commitment in the field.

The field of biomedical ethics should be taken to cover ethical issues that arise in the development and delivery of healthcare, or that arise from the use of medical techniques. This includes ethics of research (involving either humans or animals), ethical issues in the translation of research into practice, ethical issues arising in clinical care, and ethical issues arising from the delivery of care (including policy and public health).

See also

• Biomedical Ethics Programme