Function

great news - many congratulations.

thanks! Not sure if I can give any details, but it's part of a greater study which has been put on hold (or even stopped) because of certain difficulties and major problems and complications (of which e.g. death); this study is one of many studies investigating the problems occuring in the greater study and is quite basic/fundamental, but in order to review the original, greater study, which is of course applied NS

Function - make sure you pay particular attention to the MERC applications, the processes of approval, and the thinking of the experienced researchers in the whole Medical Ethics side. That is one of the hardest areas to get a handle upon and the worst to get any experience. An understanding from a working perspective (rather than academic/theoretic) of the work of the Research Committees, of Medical Ethics in General and especially in Research, and the huge political and economic overheads...