The Office of Science and Technology is a non-ministerial government department of the Britishgovernment, headed by the Chief Scientific Adviser, currently Sir David King, who took over from Sir (now Lord) Robert May in 2000. A non-ministerial government department is a department or ministry of a government that is not headed by a Government Minister or Government Secretary, and answers directly to a legislature. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Professor Sir David King ScD FRS is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, and consequently head of the Office of Science and Technology. ... Robert McCredie Bob May, Baron May of Oxford OM AC Kt (born 8 January 1936 in Australia) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and President of the Royal Society. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
The office is responsible for co-ordination of the Government's science- and technology-related activities and policies, and the distribution of some £2.4bn amongst the Research Councils (such as the Medical Research Council). The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom (UK). ... The Research Councils of the UK are government agencies responsible for particular areas of science and technology. ... Current MRC logo The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a UK organisation dedicated to promot[ing] the balanced development of medical and related biological research in the UK. // Organisation The MRC is one of eight Research Councils and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Office of Science and...
Since 1995, it has been part of the Department for Trade and Industry, though it was run under the Cabinet Office when it was originally formed in 1992 as a merger of the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser with the Science Branch of the Department of Education and Science (as then was). 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Department of Trade and Industry is a United Kingdom government department. ... The Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...
OST scientists are using the lab to study the response of the coronary and carotid arteries to initial balloon angioplasty injury and then to subsequent re-intervention with angioplasty or stents for the treatment of restenosis.
OST scientists are applying their expertise to the development of a CDRH web site on CT, the development of amendments to the diagnostic x-ray performance standard, the development of an advisory pertaining to pediatric CT exposures, and the joint planning of a consensus development conference on CT with NIH.
OST responded to increasing interest in the medical imaging community in the use of higher-voltage x-ray spectra for digital mammography and iodine-contrast-enhanced mammography, and the absence in the literature of measurements of such spectra for the common mammography x-ray tube anode materials.
The Office of Science and Technology (OST) is responsible for the development, promotion and co-ordination of Ireland's Science, Technology and Innovation policy; and Ireland's policy in European Union and international research activities.
The section is responsible for the development, promotion and co-ordination of national science and technology policy and is advised by Forfás in accordance with its statutory remit.
The Office of Science and Technology is also responsible for basic research funding allocated to Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and consequential policy issues arising from Ireland's investments through SFI, and applied research and commercialisation funding expended by Enterprise Ireland.
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