Each of our many funding applications were carefully targeted and bearing in mind the context of cutbacks and recession, we were fortunate that various funders came on board, from the Greater London Fund for the Blind to smaller funds such as the Leathersellers' Company and the Mackintosh Foundation.
SR thanks BBSRC and EPSRC for her studentship via the Doctoral Training Centre, at the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, UK. HW [ http://www.systembiology.net/support/] and RG thank various funders but in particular the EPSRC and BBSRC for their support of the above two centres.
Among those whom Hauke and his staff said they'd seen were Steve Wynn, who had sold the Golden Nugget in 1987 and vowed never to come back; various hedge-funders from New York; and a group of Chinese men — the Export-Import Bank of China was at one point in talks to buy a piece — who took over Hauke's tables and held meetings for hours, without ordering anything.
On behalf of various research funders present, however, he did agreed that the Concordat set out achievable goals, including the provision of career guidance, proper training, and equal terms and conditions.
My organization works closely with various private funders and government agencies to make sure programs are effectively administered, and sometimes we must point out when those efforts fall short of what is needed.
This was viewed as a ' much awaited development in the Canadian health research community' [ 36] and is being developed and applied by various research funders in Canada, for example by Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions [ 36].
In addition to these main public funders, there were various other public funders and non-profit foundations supporting clinical research, mainly through competitive bids or grants.
According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Sourcewatch, Philip Morris is a primary funder of various Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse groups, which, under the guise of tort reform, aim to make it harder to bring lawsuits for problems caused by hazardous products.
Funders of the research were identified in 438/1152 (38%) stories, with the most frequent funders being various U.S. government agencies (Table 4).
Data from various sources, including framework documents themselves, funder policy documents, external evaluation reports and contacts in funder agencies, indicated a need to build evaluation capacity within all organisations involved in health RCS.
