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Medical Research Council welcomes funding settlement
Medical Research Council welcomes funding settlement
09 October 2007
A significant increase in the publicly funded health
research budget has been welcomed by the Medical Research Council
(MRC). The MRC is to receive £682million a year by 2010-11 from the
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. It will work
closely with the research arm of the Department of Health - the
National Institute for Health Research – which will receive £992
million a year by 2010-11. Together they will cover all aspects of
health research in the UK under the auspices of the
Office
for Strategic Coordination of Health
Research.
The chief executive of the Medical
Research Council, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, welcomed the Government’s
announcement: “This is a significant boost for health research in
the UK. The Government’s settlement will maintain and strengthen
the foundations of basic biomedical research in the UK. But it will
also enable researchers to do more to translate discoveries into
benefits for patients and society.”
“This settlement will provide the seed
corn from which we can produce improvements in human health more
quickly and more efficiently in the coming years. The alignment of
the MRC, NIHR and other public sector funders of medical research
within a single integrated strategy through OSCHR will help to
ensure the competitiveness of UK medical research in the
future.”
The settlement will be a boost for UK science generally. It will
help to further important work with other research councils which
will tackle the emerging research challenges such as the cross
council initiative on Ageing research: lifelong health and
well-being.
Read this
press release in full on the MRC website
Last Update Date : 7/15/2009
