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Are you the next Crick or Watson? Bupa Foundation Awards gives £60,000 for excellence in healthcare

28 April 2006

The search is on to find the best new researcher – or the most startling medical innovation – in the UK.

The Bupa Foundation is calling for entries for this year’s Bupa Foundation Awards, which will give £60,000 in recognition of exceptional achievement in healthcare and research.

The Bupa Foundation is an independent charitable organisation that funds medical research and since 1979 it has awarded grants in excess of £17 million to medical research and healthcare initiatives across a broad range of disciplines from surgery to occupational health.

The Bupa Foundation Awards promote excellence in six key categories, including:

• Care Award – for excellence in the development of care for older people
• Research Award – for the best emerging medical researcher in the UK
• Epidemiology Award – for excellence in the study of chronic disease
• Clinical Excellence Award – for work that demonstrates an improved clinical outcome for patients
• Health at Work Award - for excellence in occupational medicine
• Communication Award – for effective communication between health care professionals and patients

Stanley Zammit, a Bupa Foundation Award winner last year for his breakthrough work with cannabis and schizophrenia said: "Winning the Bupa Foundation Epidemiology Award was a wonderful boost to my confidence and a great encouragement to continue with an academic career. Many people both in the UK and abroad have been in touch with me to comment positively on obtaining the award, and I have been really surprised how widely publicised and recognised this achievement has been."

Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, Bupa medical director and governor of the Bupa Foundation, said: “Every year the standard of entries is extremely high and we are hoping to once again encourage a large number of researchers and health professionals to put forward their projects for recognition in 2006. Although medical research projects start off from small beginnings, more often than not their findings can lead to real improvements in the medical and healthcare field.”

Applications must be received by 3 July 2006 at the latest. For further information on how to enter the Bupa Foundation Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator on 020 7656 2246. All category winners are invited to join a distinguished panel of judges at the Bupa Foundation Awards Dinner at Lincoln’s Inn in London, on 9 November 2006.

For more information on the Bupa Foundation Awards, please visit: www.bupafoundation.com/asp/awards/

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