MRC Annual Review 2009-10
1 November 2010
Shakespeare famously divided humanity into seven ages. The MRC Annual Review 2009/10, launched online today, borrows this theme to show how MRC-funded research benefits everyone, at every stage of life.
The impact of medical research begins before we are even born, through research on genetics and fetal development. It improves health across the human lifespan from infancy to old age. Even after we die, research into tissues donated by volunteers is helping MRC scientists to unlock the causes of devastating conditions like Parkinson’s disease.
Seven ages tells the stories of MRC scientists behind some of the most exciting discoveries from 2009/10 and of people of all ages who have benefited from their findings.
- Listen to an interview with Claire Bosanquet, whose young sons took part in a clinical trial of a new treatment for muscular dystrophy.
- Hear the story of 19-year-old Sunjay Singh, who has been part of a long-term MRC study since he was born.
- Find out about research into the boundaries of consciousness being carried out by MRC scientist Dr Martin Monti.
- Meet Eddie Holden, a pensioner who has agreed to donate his brain to medical research after he dies.
Learn about some of the many discoveries our scientists made in 2009/10, from how the lives of thousands of HIV patients could be saved at no extra cost to a new technique for predicting risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read the review at www.mrc.ac.uk/sevenages/
