Site Map
Sitemap of the MRC website showing the top 2 levels of content.
Funding opportunities
- Grants - Lists all our available grant schemes
- Call for proposals - Lists our current call for proposals in priority areas
- Fellowships - Fellowship schemes for clinical & non-clinical researchers
- Studentships - Details of our postgraduate research training
- Highlight notices - MRC high priority areas of biomedical science
- International opportunities - Collaborations with scientists based abroad
- Applicant handbook - Details on how to apply for funding from the MRC
- Deadlines - Submission deadlines for applications
Our Research
- MRC strategic plan - Our high level long term priorities for the next five years
- Research initiatives - Overview of different research areas we fund
- Success rate and grant funding - Success rates, grants awarded, government funding and objectives
- Global health research - Information on the MRC’s Global Health activities
- Facts and figures - How much we spend on research, how many grants we award, access to our annual report and accounts
- Research portfolios - Find out who is carrying out what research and where
- Boards, panels and groups - Information on our research boards, overview groups and panels
- Institutes, Units and Centres - Our units, centres and institutes in the UK and Africa
- Resources and services - Practical resources to help our scientists in their work
- Ethics and research guidance - How we ensure our work is of a high scientific standard, safe and compliant
- Career development - What medical research involves and what it can offer as a career
- Partnerships with Industry - How we help turn the outcomes of the research we fund into commercial products and benefits for society
Achievements and impact
- Ageing - Quality of life, frailty, the ageing brain
- Brain & the senses - Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, hearing, seeing, memory, cognition & psychiatry, schizophrenia, brain, CJD
- Cancer - Leukaemia, lung and other cancers, screening
- DNA - History, genetics, disease, genomics
- Heart, lung & inflammation - Heart, blood, lung, inflammation
- Infections - Tuberculosis (TB), measles, HIV, AIDS
- Nutrition & metabolism - Obesity, food supplements, diabetes, toxicology
- Sex & behaviour - HIV, AIDS, sex, reproductive health, psychiatry
- Stem cells - Brain, senses, heart, stroke, stem cells
- Nobel Prize winners - The MRC Nobel Prize winners
- Millennium Medal - Awarded by the MRC's Council to celebrate outstanding research by our scientists
- Outputs and outcomes - How we measure and evaluate the benefits of our research
- Scientist profiles - Career highlights, daily activities and future ambitions of some of our scientists
- Stories of impact - Read about cancer screening, flu, folic acid, measles, malaria, HIV, smoking, and many more
News and publications
- News - Latest news and press releases
- Publications - Annual report and accounts, delivery plan, health reports, Network newsletter, strategic plan
- Podcasts - Interviews with scientists and talks on a variety of research topics
Science and society
- How research benefits society - The MRC and knowledge transfer
- Events - Our calendar of events and previous event reports
- Max Perutz Award - Prestigious science writing award aimed at young MRC researchers
- Public involvement - How we incorporate the views of people and organisations beyond the scientific community
- Public engagement - Opportunities for MRC research students and scientists
- Public evidence - Details of submissions to Parliament and other organisations
- Policy development - Lists some of our current policy development topics
- Medical Research Foundation - The MRC's independently managed charity supporting medical research
About Us
- Mission statement - The MRC's mission as set out in our Royal Charter
- Strategy - Key principles, strategic plans, government funding
- Structure - How the Medical Research Council is structured
- Transparency - How we spend the public funding we receive
- Facts and figures - Details of grant-in-aid, employee numbers, grants awarded
- History - How a royal commission evolved into the Medical Research Council
- Working for the MRC - Vacancies, benefits, types of work
- Information and standards - Data protection, FoI, website terms and conditions
- Contact us - Head office, RCUK Shared Service Centre, other departments
- Find us - Map and details of how to reach head office