A Letter from our President
Advancing the cure and treatment of bowel disease
Welcome to BDRF's website.
BDRF continues to flourish with new avenues and fresh initiatives being explored. Income has increased sufficiently for us to be able to fund large-scale research projects over a two to three year period. Multicentre projects of national importance are now within our remit and the influence of BDRF has never been greater.
BDRF’s Trustees, at their meeting on November 1st, decided a commit a larger sum to bowel disease research than the three previous rounds combined. Following peer review (by independent experts) they agreed to fund nine projects – the most yet for a single round – at a total cost of £341,000. For the first time they had accepted larger applications, of up to £150,000. These projects cover a wide variety of serious bowel disease: bowel surgery in general; colorectal cancer; faecal incontinence; anal cancer; rectal prolapse; fistula. This brings to 28 the number of research projects BDRF has funded since 2008, at a cost of £673,000. These projects are located throughout the United Kingdom and include two in the Republic of Ireland.
We hope that you will wish to support this important work. With your help we can really make a difference.
Prof. Christopher Marks MChir FRCS
BDRF President
BDRF Patrons
Sir Walter Bodner FRS FRCPath. Mark de Ferranti. Sir Barry Jackson MS FRCS. Professor Lord McColl of Dulwich CBE MS FRCS. The Rt Hon the Lord Maclennand of Rogart. The Earl of Onslow. Lynn Faulds Wood.
BDRF Trustees
Asha Senapati PhD FRCS (Chairman). George Foster MD FRCS (Treasurer). John Meyrick Thomas MChir FRCS (Secretary). Prof. Robert Arnott FSA FRHistS. Nick Carr MD FRCS. Kaori Futaba MBChB FRCS. Alderman Gordon Warwick Haines ACII. David Jayne MD FRCS. Prof. Michael Keighley MS FRCS. Jeremy McCallum MA. Prof. Dion Morton MD FRCS. Prof. John Nichols MChir FRCS. Prof. John Northover MS FRCS. Prof. P. Ronan O'Connell MD FRCSI. Philip Salt. Azmina Verjee. Graham Williams MCh FRCS.
This page was last updated on 20-07-2011