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Sponsorship of BIRAs
The British Inflammation Research Association (BIRAs) was initially
established with the aid of start-up funding provided by UK companies.
Sponsorship is often also important to BIRAs in maintaining high quality
meeting, often involving speakers from other countries (including the USA),
without making these too expensive for its members. BIRAs thus recognises
the need for sponsorship and welcomes such offers.
However, BIRAs wishes to be seen to be independent of any overriding
commercial concern and thus does not accept sole sponsorship of any of
its activities. For example, sponsorship of a meeting will be accepted,
provided the meeting is free from any constraints on its content.
No advertisement or presentation of pharmaceutical company interests (e.g.
drugs pertinent to the subject of the meeting) is allowed.
Other forms of acceptable sponsorship are:
- sponsorship (travel, accommodation, etc.) of an individual speaker at one
of its meetings.
- commercially-orientated displays or stands, such as those by suppliers of
reagents or publishers of scientific or medical textbooks, are permissible
where they offer a genuinely useful and unbiased service to the researchers
likely to attend the meeting.
- mailshots to its members of company information of possible relevance to
Member’s interest.
- donations of funds to allow members to travel to scientific conferences
in the area of inflammation, e.g. for awards for young investigators (i.e.
PhD students) to attend national and international inflammation conferences.
- contribution(s) to the cost of its activities, e.g. this web site.
If so desired by the sponsoring company, such contributions will be recognised
at the end of any relevant literature or, in the case of this web site,
under the list of sponsors given and links to Sponsoring Companies web sites
given in this list..
If you wish to sponsor any BIRAs activities, or have a display at one
of our meeting please contact a member of the committee
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