How should funding be allocated to different levels of activity: lab projects, institutions, national and international collaborations?
The £2.5bn price tag for Dilnot's proposals cost shouldn't be an excuse for further delay – nor should funding come at the expense of people of working age.
Jeremy Morton, from Tiger 11 which is looking to take the centre into community use, told the rally it was hoped £1.5 million would be piped into the facilities should funding bids be successful.
For charities fatigued by endless funding applications and the prospect of having to cut vital services should funding dry up, it might be worth thinking about becoming a social enterprise.
What role(s) should funding agencies, journals, individual scientists, and society play in the development and maintenance of data archives?
Like respondents from other biobanks, he notes that the bank lacks a contingency plan for dissolution should funding be discontinued because of its organizers' focus on growth.
