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New MRC Deputy Chief Executive announced
Professor David Lomas has been appointed as the MRC’s new Deputy Chief Executive. He will take up a fixed term position on 1 January 2017 which will run to 31 March 2018.   (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 20, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Research councils lay foundations for ambitious new global health research programmes
Research councils join forces to harness the UK’s world-class research expertise to improve the health and prosperity of billions of people in low and middle income countries (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 16, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Director announced to lead UK Dementia Research Institute in London
The Director of the UK DRI has been named as Professor Bart De Strooper, from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Professor De Strooper will lead the national institute from UCL, to transform the UK’s research efforts to diagnose, treat, care for and prevent dementias. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 14, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

New appointments to the Medical Research Council
Two new members have been appointed to the Council of the Medical Research Council (MRC) by the Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 13, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Stealth fungus that causes thrush'hides' from immune system
Experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Aberdeen have discovered how the fungus which causes thrush tries to hide from our body’s defences. Candida albicans can be deadly when it takes advantage of the weakened immune systems of cancer or transplant patients. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 12, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Study finds no evidence cleaner cookstoves reduce pneumonia in children
The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS), funded by the MRC, Wellcome and DFID through the Joint Global Health Trials Scheme, finds no evidence that cleaner burning biomass fuelled cookstoves reduce the risk of pneumonia in young children in rural Malawi. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 7, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

How can we measure the'interdisciplinarity' of research?
A report by Digital Science raises questions important to the production of better indicators of research activity. The study, sponsored by the Research Councils, and funded by the MRC, set out to compare the consistency of indicators often assumed to explain‘interdisciplinarity’.   (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 5, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Mayor of London opens revolutionary radiotherapy machine
A pioneering new type of radiotherapy machine funded by the MRC and opened today by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has the potential to transform the care of cancer patients by directing radiation even at tumours that move during treatment. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 22, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Genetic differences in amino acid metabolism are linked to a higher risk of diabetes
A study published today in the journal PLOS Medicine has identified the five genetic variants associated with higher levels of the branched-chain amino acids isoleucine, leucine and valine. The researchers also found that these genetic variants were associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.  (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 22, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Changes to MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship awards
MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships (SNCFs) are prestigious awards which help independent early-career researchers to develop their long-term research vision and enable their transition to become internationally recognised leaders in their fields. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 17, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

The Queen opens new Francis Crick Institute building
The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York, yesterday opened the£650 million Francis Crick Institute. During a tour of the new biomedical facility, The Queen began the sequencing of Sir Paul Nurse’s genome– all three billion letters in his DNA code (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 10, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

New partnership with India to beat antibiotic resistance
New research programme between the two countries to bring together the best of UK and Indian research to meet the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 10, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

New world-class centre to reveal biological clues behind brain disorders
The MRC has awarded£3 million to King’s College London for a world-class centre that will aim to transform our understanding of disease mechanisms underlying brain disorders, and translate this knowledge into clinical advances that change people’s lives. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 9, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

UK and India team up to push scientific and cultural boundaries
A series of joint UK/India research initiatives worth up to£80 million were announced today by the UK Science Minister, Jo Johnson and Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, India. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 8, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

Evolution of ebola virus resulted in increased human infectivity
An international study, funded by the MRC and the and BBSRC and published in the journal Cell, has shown that genetic changes which took place as the virus was transmitted from human to human increased infectivity during the epidemic. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 3, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news