The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Research Strategy highlights the following areas of Research as priorities for the College to support.

• Surgical translational research
• Surgical health services research
• Research into surgical aspects of patient safety, simulation and non-operative technical skills
• Cancer research of demonstrable direct clinical relevance to the management of solid tumours.

Applications are invited from surgical trainees and recently-appointed Consultants who are Fellows/Members of the College in good standing.

Grants are awarded for pump priming projects for a period of one year only.

Research project submissions should satisfy one or more of the College's four priority areas for research, as listed above. The application should also include a well-defined exit strategy (i.e. how the project will be taken forward). The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 15 June 2012.

Guidance Notes: Small Research Grants

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