Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê excels at Medical Research Council applications and awards
14 July 2009
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The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced that Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê received the largest amount of funding and highest number of awards through its grants and fellowships programme in 2008/2009. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê also made the highest number of grant applications deemed "internationally competitive".
The university received 70 grants and fellowships (up from 43 the previous year), almost 14% (up from 10%) of the total number awarded by the MRC. The £44 million awarded to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê was 16% of the total funding (up from 10%).
Fifty-eight grant
applications made by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê to the MRC were judged of "internationally competitive"
quality in 2008/2009. This was the most applications of that quality made by any institution and constituted 13% of all such MRC
applications (up from 10%). It was also more than twice the number
of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê applications of that calibre made in the previous year.
Funding excellent research is at the heart of the MRC's stated mission to improve human health: "To achieve this, we support research across the biomedical spectrum, from fundamental lab-based science to clinical trials, and in all major disease areas. We … give a high priority to research that is likely to make a real difference to clinical practice and the health of the population."
Professor David Price, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Vice-Provost (Research), said: "The
quality and success of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's applications for MRC grants and fellowships reflects
our strengths in - and beyond - biomedicine. We share the MRC's commitment to fostering
world-leading research and to ensuring that we maximise its impact."
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