LhARA Executive Board 19Mar25; 16:00 GMT

Present: KL, AG, CJ, CP, HO, WS, TG, RB

Agenda

1. Notes and actions: All
   

2. Update on engagement with STFC: KL / All
   
   • Brief discussion of status/goals of meeting with M.Doherty. In outline we discussed raising issue of how to partner with STFC to make the chase for LhARA as cross research council, multidisciplinary, impact generation. Also, alignment with Government priorities (5 themes). Goal to become a UKRI impact multidisciplinary programme.

3. Status of BP1 awards: CW / All
   
   • All grants, except RHUL, are believed to be issued; RHUL issue understood and being sorted out.

4. Clinical/pre-clinical peer group meeting: PP, RA, All
   
   • To be updated at next meeting.

5. Source/capture/lasers4biomed peer group meeting(s): KL, All
   
   • Discussions in Strathclyde identified a number of areas where responsive mode bids could be made. Concept should be to initiate discussions with the key participants to see how to take the programme forward.

6. Great Exhibition Road Festival of Science update: PP, KL, All
   
   • Steady progress, documented in the GERF wiki pages.

7. CDR preparation: All
   
   • Coming up priority list.

8. IB report: TG, YP
   
   • Agree not to have IB at CM.

9. Collaboration meeting dates: All
   • 07-08 April 2025, UCL
     • ​Agenda on Indico
   • Sep25, TBD ; ?? Swansea

10. DONM
    16Apr25 -- 16:00 BST

11. AoB
    

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