Evaluating high risk research: An assessment of the Wellcome Trust's Sir Henry Wellcome Commemorative Awards for Innovative Research

Research Evaluation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-204

  Grant, Jonathan ^a   Allen, Liz ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346510566     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/147154499781777513     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. DTI (1998), "Realising Our Potential Award" Scheme (ROPA). Outcomes survey (Department of Trade and Industry, London).
2. J Grant and E Allen (1998), Promoting Innovation in Biomedical Research. An Evaluation of the Wellcome Trust's Showcase Scheme (PRISM report 98T01) (Wellcome Trust, London).
3. HFEA, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1998), Seventh Annual Report and Accounts (HFEA, London) page 9.
4. D F Horrobin (1990), "The philosophical basis of peer review and the suppression of innovation", JAMA, 263, pages 1438-1441.
5. D F Horrobin (1996), "Peer review of grant applications: a harbinger for mediocrity in clinical research?, The Lancet, 348, pages 1293-1295.
6. P Steptoe (1985), "Historical aspects of the ethics of in vitro fertilisation", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 442, pages 573-576.
7. S Wessely (1998), "Peer review of grant applications: what do we know?", The Lancet, 352, pages 301-305.