ABSTRACT The Francis Crick Institute Laboratory, opened in 2016, is supported by the
Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, and University …

Sitting over lunch with a scientist who serves on the governing body of a well-known UK
research funder, together with the former Dean of a British medical school (and now one his …

The UK has an excellent record of producing physician scientists who have become
international leaders and achieved major breakthroughs in both the clinical and scientific …

London, was showing its age. So were some lab facilities supported by the Imperial Cancer
Research Fund, a charity later renamed Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Nurse was head of …

Notes: All funding data are from the Higher Education Information Database for Institutions
(heidi), Research grants and contracts, 2013. Available online with registration at …

Clinical research is essential for patients to benefit from the advances of medical science.
Particularly needed are thorough and imaginative investigations into applied physiology …

Liam O'Toole outlined the approach of the new UK Clinical Research Collaborating Centre,
which, under the banner of 'Igniting our Potential', aimed to increase the effectiveness of the …

Medicine requires revolutionaries. Are you ready to erect the barricades? Might you be so
willing if I amended this rallying cry to 'academic medicine'requires revolutionaries …

In 10 years as the UK government's finance chief, Gordon Brown engineered substantial
and steady growth in research funding. Now, as prime minister, Brown is continuing that …

This latest installment in a series of commentaries examining funding issue in biomedical
research, focuses on the role of the Medical research Council (MRC)—the largest funding …