IIB scientific contacts at the MRC
General contact
For general pre-award enquiries, please contact:
Contact: MRC pre-awards administration team
Email: grants@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific contacts
If you have a query about scientific aspects of your research proposal, please contact the programme manager shown below against your scientific area.
Head of Infections & Immunity
(Senior contact for Stratified Medicine and African Units)
Dr Des Walsh
Email: desmond.walsh@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Board Manager
Dr James Horswill
Email: james.horswill@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
- LWEC Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases Initiative
Programme Manager for immunology
Dr Jacqui Oakley
Email: jacqui.oakley@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Host response to pathogens
- Vaccine research
- Normal Immunology: Including Cellular and Molecular Immunology & Inflammation – basic mechanisms, cellular and molecular inflammation
- Immune Disease: Including Allergy (except asthma and other organ based disorders), Transplantation immunology, Systemic immune disorders & Auto-immune disease
Programme Manager for global health and infections
Dr Morven Roberts
Email: Morven.Roberts@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Tropical infections research relevant to the health of developing countries;
- Malaria, Parasitology;
- HIV and AIDS in developing societies;
- Bacterial diseases relevant to developing countries;
- Sexual health in a developing societies setting;
- Global health trials;
Programme Manager for general infections
Dr Rebecca Hodges
Email: Rebecca.Hodges@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Basic, applied and translational research into virology, bacteriology, parasitology and mycology;
- Basic HIV and AIDS research including drug discovery;
- Influenza research;
- Transmission and control of infectious agents;
- Clinical infection;
- Healthcare acquired infections;
- Antimicrobial resistance;
- Sexual health;
- UKCRC translational infection research initiative.