{"id":4327,"date":"2018-07-04T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:55:12","slug":"the-professor-richard-wise-memorial-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2018\/07\/04\/the-professor-richard-wise-memorial-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Professor Richard Wise Memorial Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"detail-meta-item-name\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"674\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4328\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2018\/07\/richard-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"detail-meta-item-name\">In memory of\u00a0Richard Wise<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>A memorial fund has\u00a0been created in the late Professor Richard Wise&#8217;s name to commemorate\u00a0his contribution to science and the academic community at Imperial College London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Professor Richard Wise Memorial Fund exists within Imperial College and aims to commemorate Richard and his passion for supporting researchers early in their careers.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3nl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging<\/a> group at\u00a0Imperial to will be hosting\u00a0an annual international lecture prize competition for young scientists in cognitive neuroscience. This will be in memory of Richard who made enormous\u00a0contributions\u00a0to cognitive neuroscience and had a\u00a0reputation for supporting young\u00a0neuroscientists.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Fund<\/h2>\n<p>Early to mid-career neuroscientists will be invited to submit scientific abstracts in the field of cognitive neuroscience\u00a0on an annual basis. The\u00a0winning candidate will present their work in London alongside an invited lecture\u00a0delivered by a senior internationally-renowned cognitive neuroscientist.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0fund will support\u00a0travel\u00a0expenses for both the winning\u00a0scientists\u00a0and the invited speaker, their\u00a0accommodation\u00a0costs,\u00a0and refreshments for the event.\u00a0To maximise attendance to the event, the event itself will be free and open to all cognitive neuroscientists and will be\u00a0temporally linked to\u00a0a\u00a0national\/international neuroscience event, such as the annual\u00a0Association of British Neurologists meeting, or the\u00a0British Neuropsychological Society\u00a0spring meeting. Around 200\u00a0delegates are expected, from a wide range of research and clinical backgrounds. The audience will include clinical neurologists, neuroscientists, neuroimaging analysts\u00a0and clinical psychologists.\u00a0The organising committee will be chaired by Professor David Sharp, Dr Adam Hampshire, Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh and Dr Emily Shaw (Richard\u2019s daughter).<\/p>\n<h2>How to donate<\/h2>\n<p>Donations to the Fund can be made on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/profrichardwise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JustGiving page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Richard Wise was a Consultant neurologist and a Professor of neurology at Imperial College London. He was a prolific academic writer who was deeply respected by his colleagues and patients. He supervised many PhD students who have gone on to become leaders in their field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be taking place from 6-9pm, Monday 9 July, Lecture Theatre 1, Wolfson Education Centre, Hammersmith Hospital. Further details and registration at <a href=\"https:\/\/richardwise.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/richardwise.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of\u00a0Richard Wise A memorial fund has\u00a0been created in the late Professor Richard Wise&#8217;s name to commemorate\u00a0his contribution to science and the academic community at Imperial College London. The Professor Richard Wise Memorial Fund exists within Imperial College and aims to commemorate Richard and his passion for supporting researchers early in their careers.\u00a0The Computational, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}