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Changes to MRC Senior Fellowships
MRC’s mission is to improve human health through world-class medical research, from fundamental science to early clinical trials and preventive medicine. To achieve this, we are committed to attracting and developing outstanding researchers. Investing in people is one of the foundations of our 2019 strategic delivery plan. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 12, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

New film helps early career researchers take steps toward research independence
The Medical Research Council’s (MRC) New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG) is a unique opportunity for talented early career researchers to get significant funding for their work. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 8, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Time to Talk: Young people bust mental health myths through art
Mental health myths are busted in the first National Gallery mental health awareness audio tour, sponsored by UKRI’s Medical Research Council. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 6, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

New appointments to the MRC's Council
UK Research and Innovation has appointed two new members to the MRC’s Council– Dr Precious Lunga and Professor Kim Graham. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 5, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

£20 million " rapid response " for novel coronavirus research
£20 million has been made available for novel coronavirus research via a rapid research call announced today by UKRI and DHSC via NIHR. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 5, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

New Director for MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL
The MRC is pleased to announce Professor Alison Lloyd as the new Director of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - February 5, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Largest analysis of UK health research funding published
A report published today delivers the most comprehensive analysis of UK health research funding ever compiled. Bringing together data from 146 charity, professional and public sector organisations, theUK Health Research Analysis 2018 found that in 2018 these funders contributed£4.8 billion to support research to improve human health. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 28, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Global Talent Visa: new visa scheme for international researchers to be led by UK Research and Innovation
As part of a package of announcements today, the government has announced changes to Tier 1 Visas for researchers. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 27, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Pathways to Impact: Impact core to the UK Research and Innovation application process
As part of a package of announcements today, UK Research and Innovation has announced changes to our requirements on‘Pathways to Impact’. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 27, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia
Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 14, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS 1959-2020
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS, Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 9, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Slashing energy could make Nobel prize-winning cryoEM microscopes affordable for many labs worldwide
Electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM)– which won the2017 Nobel prize– could be made far cheaper by reducing the energy of the microscope and creating better detectors for imaging low energy electrons, according to a proof-of-principle demonstration by scientists at the MRC LMB. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 2, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

UK and South Korea collaboration tackles severe asthma
In a landmark collaboration, the MRC, the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) have joined forces to fund a major new precision medicine consortium focused on tackling severe asthma. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 2, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

MRC, NIHR and ESRC join forces to launch an ambitious multidisciplinary initiative in Multimorbidity
Applications are sought to build a national portfolio of interdisciplinary Multimorbidity Research Collaboratives as part of“Tackling Multimorbidity at Scale” - a£20 millionStrategic Priorities Fund initiative, jointly funded by the MRC and the DHSC, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and in close collaboration with ESRC. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 17, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news

Cold infections may be less frequent in people with the flu
People were less likely to catch either influenza or a common cold-causing rhinovirus if they were already infected with the other virus, a new study by scientists from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has found. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 17, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news