Application for student and developing country bursaries to attend the HeLEX Oxford & ELSI 2.0 Conference 'Exploring ELSI aspects of translation in healthcare', University of Oxford, June 2015. (360G-Wellcome-106516_Z_14_Z)

This HeLEX five year celebration and inaugural ELSI 2.0 conference will be held in Oxford on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June 2015 and will explore the broad theme of Translation in Healthcare. It will be an interactive event allowing people from a wide range of disciplines to contribute to discussion and engage with these issues. Often the best connections and most exciting ideas begin in the coffee break; we want to capture this quality and apply it to the whole conference. HeLEX and ELSI 2.0 w ant to build on ELSI work to date by looking outward to make connections and invite wider perspectives on the global ELSI agenda, especially from hitherto under-represented parts of the world. In part this will involve much greater use of networking and collaboration technologies but this also involves invitation of as many researchers and students from around the world as possible to attend this conference and become involved in ELSI 2.0 from the outset. For this reason we are particularly see king funding for bursaries for students and attendees from low resource countries to attend the conference which will then be open for applications on our website.