{{Short description|National medical research agency}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox government agency | name = Medical Research Council | type = Council | logo = [[File:Medical Research Council logo.svg|220px]] | logo_size = | logo_caption = | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | image_alt = | formed = {{start date and age|1913}} | preceding1 = | dissolved = | superseding1 = | agency_type = | jurisdiction = | status = Council within [[UK Research and Innovation]] | headquarters = [[Swindon]], [[Wiltshire]], England | coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LATITUDE|LONGITUDE|type:landmark_region:US|display=inline,title}} --> | motto = | employees = | budget = £604 million ([[fiscal year#United Kingdom|FY2024/25]])<ref>{{cite web |title=UK Research and Innovation Annual Report and Accounts 2024–25 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukri-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-to-2025|website=GOV.UK |access-date=11 October 2025}}</ref> | minister1_name = [[Liz Kendall]] MP | minister1_pfo = [[Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology]] | minister2_name = [[Patrick Vallance]] | minister2_pfo = [[Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation]] | chief1_name = [[Patrick Chinnery]] | chief1_position = Executive Chair | parent_department = [[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology]] | parent_agency = [[UK Research and Innovation]] | parent_agency_type = body | keydocument1 = | website = | agency_id = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | map_alt = | mapframe = | footnotes = | embed = }} The '''Medical Research Council''' ('''MRC''') is a council<ref>{{Cite legislation UK |type=act |year=2017 |chapter=29 |act=Higher Education and Research Act 2017 |section=92 }}</ref> of [[UK Research and Innovation]] (UKRI), a non-departmental public body sponsored by the [[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology]], responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom.
The MRC focuses on high-impact research and has provided the financial support and scientific expertise behind a number of medical breakthroughs, including the development of [[penicillin]] and the discovery of the [[structure of DNA]]. Research funded by the MRC has produced 32 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to date.
==History== The MRC was founded as the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council in 1913,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=121&CATLN=1&accessmethod=5&j=1/|title=Records created or inherited by the Medical Research Council |access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> with its prime role being the distribution of medical research funds under the terms of the [[National Insurance Act 1911]]. This was a consequence of the recommendation of the [[Royal Commissions on Tuberculosis]], which recommended the creation of a permanent medical research body. The mandate was not limited to tuberculosis, however.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
In 1920, it became the Medical Research ''Council'' under [[Royal Charter]]. A supplementary Charter was formally approved by the Queen on 17 July 2003. In March 1933, MRC established the ''British Journal of Clinical Research and Educational Advanced Medicine'', the first scientific published medical patrol, as a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. It contains articles that have been peer reviewed, in an attempt to ensure that articles meet the journal's standards of quality, and scientific validity, allow researchers to keep up to date with the developments of their field and direct their own research.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
In August 2012, the creation of the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre, a research centre for personalised medicine, was announced.<ref name=the1812>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420740&c=1|title=London 2012 legacy to include medical research centre|access-date=1 August 2012|publisher=Times Higher Education|date=1 August 2012}}</ref><ref name=bbc1812>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19066103|title=Legacy for anti-doping centre|access-date=1 August 2012|publisher=BBC News|date=1 August 2012}}</ref> The MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre is based at [[Imperial College London]] and is a combination of inherited equipment from the anti-doping facilities used to test samples during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games<ref name=the1812/><ref name=bbc1812/> and additional items from the Centre's technology partners [[Bruker]] and [[Waters Corporation]]. The Centre, led by [[Imperial College London]] and [[King's College London]], is funded with two five-year grants of £5 million from the Medical Research Council and the [[National Institute for Health and Care Research]] (NIHR)<ref name=the1812/><ref name=bbc1812/> and was officially opened in June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-6-2013-12-3-42|title=New centre will decipher roles of nature and nurture in human health|website=Imperial College News and Events|date=5 June 2013 |publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=13 November 2014}}</ref>
===Notable research=== Important work carried out under MRC auspices has included: * the identification of the dietary cause of [[rickets]] by [[Edward Mellanby|Sir Edward Mellanby]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Edward_Mellanby.aspx/|title=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Mellanby, Edward|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Mellanby also carried out human experimentation regarding vitamin A and C deficiencies on volunteers at the [[Sorby Research Institute]];{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} * the discovery, in 1918, that [[influenza]] is caused by a virus;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:141950&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS.PDF/|title=Social History of Medicine – Uses of a Pandemic: Forging the Identities of Influenza and Virus Research in Interwar Britain|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press| date=15 December 2011}}</ref> * the description of [[neurotransmission]] and the first [[neurotransmitter]], [[acetylcholine]], by [[Henry Hallett Dale|Sir Henry Hallett Dale]] and [[Otto Loewi]], leading to a [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] in 1936; {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the development of [[penicillin]] by [[Alexander Fleming|Sir Alexander Fleming]], [[Ernst Boris Chain|Sir Ernst Boris Chain]] and [[Howard Walter Florey|Lord Florey]], gaining them the 1945 Nobel Prize;<ref>{{cite book|last=Bud|first=Robert|title=Penicillin Triumph and Tragedy|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|url=https://archive.org/details/penicillintriump0000budr |url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/penicillintriump0000budr/page/43 43]|isbn=978-0-19-925406-4}}</ref> * linkage of lung cancer to [[tobacco smoking]] by [[Richard Doll|Sir Richard Doll]] and [[Austin Bradford Hill|Sir Austin Bradford Hill]] in the [[British doctors study]], published in 1956;<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Doll | first1 = R. | last2 = Peto | first2 = R. | last3 = Boreham | first3 = J. | last4 = Sutherland | first4 = I. | title = Mortality from cancer in relation to smoking: 50 years observations on British doctors | doi = 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602359 | journal = British Journal of Cancer | volume = 92 | issue = 3 | pages = 426–429 | year = 2005 | pmid = 15668706 | pmc =2362086 }}</ref> * the discovery of the structure of [[DNA]] by [[James D. Watson]], [[Francis Crick]], [[Rosalind Franklin]] and [[Maurice Wilkins|Professor Maurice Wilkins]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Torsten|first=Krude|author2=Klug, Aaron|title=Changing Science and Society|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dnachangingscien0000unse/page/3 3–26]|url=https://archive.org/details/dnachangingscien0000unse/page/3|isbn=0-521-82378-1}}</ref> Three would receive the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for their discovery; * the development of [[magnetic resonance imaging]] in 1973 by [[Peter Mansfield|Professor Peter Mansfield]] and independently by [[Paul Lauterbur]]. This would lead to the 2003 Nobel Prize;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> * the development of [[monoclonal antibody|monoclonal antibodies]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/antibody/|title=Therapeutic Antibodies and the LMB|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121222215920/http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/antibody/|archive-date=22 December 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> at the [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] by [[César Milstein]] and [[Georges Köhler]] in 1975 (1984 Nobel Prize); {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the development of [[DNA sequencing]] by [[Frederick Sanger]] of the [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] in 1977 (1980 Nobel Prize); {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the identification, in 1983, of [[folic acid]] as a preventive measure for [[spina bifida]] and [[neural tube defect]]s;<ref>{{Cite journal | author1 = Centers for Disease Control (CDC) | title = Use of folic acid for prevention of spina bifida and other neural tube defects—1983–1991 | journal = MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | volume = 40 | issue = 30 | pages = 513–516 | year = 1991 | pmid = 2072886}}</ref> * the conducting of large studies in the 1970s and 1980s which established that [[aspirin]] can decrease the risk of [[cardiovascular disease]]; {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the publication of the [[genome]] of ''[[Caenorhabditis elegans|C. elegans]]'', the first multicellular organism to receive this treatment, in 1998; {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the ongoing [[Heart Protection Study]],<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Collins | first1 = R. | last2 = Armitage | first2 = J. | last3 = Parish | first3 = S. | last4 = Sleigh | first4 = P. | last5 = Peto | first5 = R. | author6 = Heart Protection Study Collaborative Group | title = MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: A randomised placebo-controlled trial | journal = Lancet | volume = 361 | issue = 9374 | pages = 2005–2016 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12814710 | doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13636-7| s2cid = 28111189 }}</ref> showing benefits of primary prevention with [[simvastatin]] in patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease; * Dr [[Venki Ramakrishnan]] of the [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> for showing how ribosomes, the tiny protein-making factories inside cells, function at the atomic level; * the discovery that early treatment of HIV-infected babies with anti-retroviral therapy can dramatically increase their chances of survival; {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the development of a test for detecting infectious prions on surgical instruments which is more accurate than previous tests and 100 times faster; {{cn|date=August 2025}} * the identification of the second ever genetic variant associated with obesity;<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Loos | first1 = R. J. F. | title = Recent progress in the genetics of common obesity | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2009.03523.x | journal = British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | volume = 68 | issue = 6 | pages = 811–829 | year = 2009 | pmid = 20002076 | pmc =2810793 }}</ref> and * the finding that high quality surgery combined with a short course of radiotherapy can halve the rate of recurrence of colorectal cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=3053|title=Press release: Doctors more than halve local relapse of rectal cancer|access-date=28 February 2012|website=insciences.org|date=6 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502094339/http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=3053|archive-date=2 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Scientists associated with the MRC have received a total of 32 Nobel Prizes, all in either ''Physiology or Medicine'' or ''Chemistry''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mrc.ukri.org/successes/awards-recognition/|title=Nobel Prize Winners|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Medical Research Council|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228225127/http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Achievementsimpact/NobelPrize/index.htm|archive-date=28 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
==Organisation and leadership== MRC is a council<ref>{{Cite legislation UK |type=act |year=2017 |chapter=29 |act=Higher Education and Research Act 2017 |section=92 }}</ref> of [[UK Research and Innovation]], a non-departmental public body sponsored by the [[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology]]. In the past, the MRC has been answerable to the [[Office of Science and Innovation]], part of the [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]] and the later to the [[Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
The MRC is advised by a council which directs and oversees corporate policy and science strategy, ensures that the MRC is effectively managed, and makes policy and spending decisions. Council members are drawn from industry, academia, government and the NHS. Members are appointed by the [[Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology]]. Daily management is in the hands of the Executive Chair. Members of the council also chair specialist boards on specific areas of research. For specific subjects, the council convenes committees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mrc.ukri.org/about/our-structure/council/|title=MRC Council|access-date=28 February 2012|publisher=Medical Research Council}}</ref>
===Chairmen=== * 1913–1916: [[Lord Moulton]] * 1916–1920: Major [[Waldorf Astor]] * 1920–1924: [[George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen]] * 1924: [[E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax]] * 1924–1929: [[Arthur Balfour|Earl of Balfour]] * 1929–1934: [[Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon]] * 1934–1936: [[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow]] * 1936–1948: [[George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh]] * 1948–1951: [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison]] * 1952–1960: [[Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick]] * 1960–1961: [[Viscount Amory]] * 1961–1965: [[Lord Shawcross]] * 1965–1969: Viscount Amory * 1969–1978: [[Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland]] * 1978–1982: [[Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd]] * 1982–1990: [[George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe]] * 1990–1998: Sir [[David Plastow]] * 1998–2006: Sir [[Anthony Cleaver]] * 2006–2012: [[John Chisholm (executive)|Sir John Chisholm]] * 2012–2018: [[Donald Brydon|Sir Donald Brydon]]
===Chief executives=== As Chief Executives (originally secretaries) served: * 1914–33: Sir [[Walter Morley Fletcher]] * 1933–49: Sir [[Edward Mellanby]] * 1949–68: Sir [[Harold Himsworth]] * 1968–77: Sir [[John Gray (physiologist)|John Gray]] * 1977–87: Sir [[James L. Gowans]] * 1987–96: Sir [[Dai Rees (scientist)|Dai Rees]] * 1996–2003: Professor Sir [[George Radda]] * 2003–2007: Professor Sir [[Colin Blakemore]] * 2007–2010: Professor Sir [[Leszek Borysiewicz]] * 2010–2018: Professor Sir [[John Savill]]
===Executive chairs=== Following the formation of UK Research and Innovation, the executive chair role replaced the chief executive officer role, and has been held by: * 2018–2022: Professor [[Fiona Watt]] * 2022-2023 (interim post): Professor [[John Iredale (academic)|Sir John Iredale]] * 2023–present: Professor Patrick Chinnery<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ukri.org/news/professor-patrick-chinnery-appointed-as-mrc-executive-chair/ | title=Professor Patrick Chinnery appointed as MRC Executive Chair | date=22 August 2023 }}</ref>
MRC CEOs are normally automatically [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Knighthood|knighted]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Angelina Jolie made dame in thousand-strong Queen's birthday honours list|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/13/angelina-jolie-dame-queens-birthday-honours-list|access-date=14 June 2014|work=The Guardian|date=13 June 2014}}</ref>
==Former institutes, centres and units== The MRC previously had units, centres and institutes based in universities in the UK. In 2022, they announced they would not longer fund university hosted centres, units and institutes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Funding overhaul threatens historic U.K. research units |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/funding-overhaul-threatens-historic-u-k-research-units |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=www.science.org |language=en}}</ref> Withdrawal of funding began in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-03 |title=MRC unit closures a ‘disaster’ for curiosity-led research |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mrc-unit-closures-disaster-curiosity-led-research |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> The following is a list of the MRC's institutes, centres and units up until June 2024 prior to the withdrawal of funding.<ref name="unitscentres">{{cite web |title=MRC list of institutes, units and centres |url=https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/mrc/institutes-units-and-centres/list/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |publisher=Medical Research Council}}</ref>
'''Bristol''' * MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, [[University of Bristol]] (IEU)
'''Cambridge''' * MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge (BSU) * [[Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit|MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit]] * MRC Epidemiology Unit, [[University of Cambridge]] (EU) * [[Laboratory of Molecular Biology|MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] (LMB) * MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge (MDU) * [[MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit]] at the University of Cambridge * MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Cambridge * Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
'''Dundee''' * MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the [[University of Dundee]]
'''Edinburgh''' * Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh * MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, [[University of Edinburgh]] * [[MRC Human Genetics Unit]] at the University of Edinburgh
'''Exeter''' * MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the [[University of Exeter]]
'''Glasgow''' * MRC & CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, [[University of Glasgow]] (SPHSU) * MRC–University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
'''Harwell''' * Research Complex at Harwell
'''London''' * Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London * [[Francis Crick Institute]] (partnership between the MRC, [[Cancer Research UK]], Imperial College London, [[King's College London]], the [[Wellcome Trust]] and University College London) * MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (at [[King's College London]]) * MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection at Imperial College London * [[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis]] at [[Imperial College London]] * MRC Clinical Trials Unit UCL (CTU) * MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (at [[Imperial College London]]) * [[National Institute for Medical Research]] * MRC Prion Unit at University College London * MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL (home of the [[National Survey of Health & Development]] * MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine * MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
'''Oxford''' * MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (at the University of Oxford) * MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford * MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit at the University of Oxford * MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford * Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford
'''Southampton''' * Versus Arthritis/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton * MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton (LEU)
'''Multiple sites across UK''' * Health Data Research UK (central team in London) * MRC/Versus Arthritis Centre for Integrated research into Musculoskeletal Ageing, Liverpool/Sheffield/NCL (universities of [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]] and [[Univefrsity of Newcastle|Newcastle]]) (CIMA) * MRC/Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research (CMAR), Birmingham/Nottingham (universities of [[University of Birmingham|Birmingham]] and [[University of Nottingham|Nottingham]]) * UK Dementia Research Institute (hub at UCL; centres hosted by universities of Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Surrey, Imperial College London and King’s College London)
== Facilities and resources== MRC facilities and resources include, {{as of|June 2024|lc=y|post=:}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukri.org/councils/mrc/facilities-and-resources/find-an-mrc-facility-or-resource/#contents-list|title= Find an MRC facility or resource|website=UKRI|access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> ''In the UK'': * Better Methods, Better Research guidance portal * Central Laser facility at the [[Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory]] * Clinical trials data sharing: ReShare (at the UK Data Service) * Cohort Directory * [[Diamond Light Source]] (UK national synchrotron facility, Harwell) * Dementias Platform UK * Electron Bio-imaging Centre at the Diamond Light Source * Genomics England * Health Data Research Innovation Gateway * ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the [[Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory]] * LifeArc * Mary Lyon Centre (UK national facility for mouse genetics, Harwell) * MRC Biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Centre * MRC Centre for Macaques * MRC scales (MRC dyspnoea scale; MRC muscle scale; neurological scle) * MRC-Wellcome Trust Human Developmental Biology Resource (HDBR) * Regulatory Support Centre * Research Complex at Harwell * UK Biobank * UK Stem Cell Bank * UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Tissue Directory
''International collaborations'': * Beamtime at the [[European Synchrotron Radiation Facility]], France * Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) * Institut Laue-Langevin neutron source, France * Instruct – European infrastructure for structural biology (European Research Infrastructure Consortium)
== See also == * [[National Institute for Health and Care Research]]
==Notes and references== {{Reflist|30em}}
==Further reading== * Austoker, Joan, and [[Linda Bryder]], eds. ''Historical perspectives on the role of the MRC: essays in the history of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and its predecessor, the Medical Research Committee, 1913–1953'' (Oxford UP, 1989) * Fisher D. "The Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of Scientific Medicine in Britain" ''Minerva'' (1987) 16#1, 20–41. * Sussex, Jon, et al. "Quantifying the economic impact of government and charity funding of medical research on private research and development funding in the United Kingdom." ''BMC Medicine'' 14#1 (2016): 1+ *{{cite book |last=Thomson |first=A. Landsborough |title=Half a Century of Medical Research Volume One: Origins and Policy of the Medical Research Council (UK) |publisher= [[Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)|Medical Research Council]], [[Office of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty's Stationery Office]] |location=London |date=1973 |isbn=0-11450025-8}} * Viergever, Roderik F., and Thom CC Hendriks. "The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world: what they fund and how they distribute their funds." ''Health Research Policy and Systems'' 14#1 (2016): 1.
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