PSMB 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 Population & Systems Medicine
Joe McNamara
Email: Joe.McNamara@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Programme Manager for Population Sciences and Public Health
Dr Amanda Chmura
Email: Amanda.Chmura@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch: Population sciences and public health research with generic health relevance including:
- lifestyle and socioeconomic impacts on health
- behavioural research
- health inequalities
Programme Manager for Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Inflammation
Dr David Crosby
Email: David.Crosby@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Cardiovascular research and vascular biology
- Respiratory medicine (excluding lung cancer)
- Inflammation in disease (including rheumatoid arthritis)
- Systems biology for medicine
- Senior non-clinical fellowship
Programme Manager for Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolic Medicine
Dr Karen Finney
Email: Karen.Finney@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Clinical endocrinology (excluding reproductive endocrinology)
- Hepatic medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Trauma, acute medicine and surgery
Programme Manager for Musculoskeletal and Renal Medicine, Reproductive Health and Paediatrics
Dr Paula Frampton
Email: Paula.Frampton@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
Scientific patch:
- Musculoskeletal health (including osteoporosis/OA)
- Reproductive health, fetal development and childbirth (including reproductive endocrinology)
- Renal medicine
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Paediatrics
- Early origins of adult disease
Programme Manager for Methodology
- See Population Sciences and Partnership Initiatives
Dr Mark Pitman
E-mail: Mark.Pitman@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
- MRC Clinical Trials Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies (CTSU), Oxford
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge