The Deadline for Young Investigator Award is now closed.

Applications for the Abstract and Gold Medal Award are now closed.

The Society's Research Committee is responsible for the promotion of the research aspirations of the Society. The Committee's intention is for the Society's grants to target primarily pump-priming research that will particularly encourage young research workers.

To emphasise this we offer an annual grant in the form of the Young Investigator Award. The Society hopes that these 'young' researchers will make increasing contributions to future scientific meetings. Additionally, The Committee is keen to support undergraduate medical students with an annual prize for the best essay submitted. For queries relating to grants and prizes please contact shaba@ics.ac.uk.  The Society is proud to announce the Joint Directors of Research are Dr Gavin Perkins and Dr Danny McAuley.

The Society has been involved in the creation of and initial funding of The Intensive Care Foundation. The Foundation aims to promote intensive care research in the UK and coordinate multicentre trials. There is now considerable expertise in this area and there are now several projects underway, including TracMan, BALTI II, SimSept and PERMIT. If you are interested in getting involved in multicentre research trials or have ideas for future pilots or large scale studies then please contact the Trials Coordinator, Lesley Morgan [lesley.morgan@nda.ox.ac.uk].

The Society will hold regular research priority reviews and it is likely that these will take place at the annual meeting.