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MRC Strategic Plan 2009-2014

Supporting Scientists - Strategic Aim Four - Sustaining a robust and flourishing environment for world-class medical research IMAGE: © Crown Copyright/Health & Safety Laboratory/Science Photo Library

The MRC aims to strengthen the UK research base to enable the scientific community to respond effectively to current and future grand challenges in medical research.

OBJECTIVES:

Capacity: To strengthen and sustain a skilled research workforce through targeted support for excellent training and the development of world-class research leaders.

Use of population-based data: To exploit fully the complexity and benefits of population-based data; to maximise sharing and linkage of data, and to develop data collection and storage.

Research environment: To provide a world-class research environment.

Achieving our strategic aims and objectives

A VISIONARY PAST;
A PIONEERING FUTURE
Plans are underway to form a new strategic partnership with Oxford University to develop the world renowned Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), as an MRC-University Institute. This is an innovative way of working with a university to deliver the MRC’s translation strategy.

The WIMM was established in 1989 through a collaboration between the MRC, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), Wellcome Trust, Nuffield Medical Trust, EP Abrahams Trust and Oxford University, to support research in the field of molecular and cell biology with a direct application to study human disease. The WIMM has a high international profile and has been cited as a model of success for UK translational science.