The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI),which came into operation 1 April 2018,and brings together the UK's seven research councils,Innovate UK and Research England. UK Research and Innovation is answerable to,although politically independent from,the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Sir David GrantFLSW is a British academic who was the vice-chancellor of Cardiff University in Wales from 2001 to 2012. Following his appointment,Grant oversaw the merger between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine,which was completed in 2004,and the award of university status to Cardiff.
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist,former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt,for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
Sir Martin John EvansFLSW is an English biologist who,with Matthew Kaufman,was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known,along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies,for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting,a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. In 2007,the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.
The Cardiff University School of Medicine is the medical school of Cardiff University and is located in Cardiff,Wales,UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire,it is the oldest of the three medical schools in Wales.
Sir Colin Blakemore,,Hon was a British neurobiologist,specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Institute of Philosophy,School of Advanced Study,University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a past Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He was best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer,he was both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".
Sir David John Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College,Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Spiegelhalter is an ISI highly cited researcher.
Sir David Philip Lane is a British immunologist,molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology,Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody. He is best known for the discovery of p53,one of the most important tumour suppressor genes.
Sir David James Scott Cooksey was a British businessman,venture capitalist and policy advisor.
Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005,where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.
Dame Jean Olwen Thomas,is a Welsh biochemist,former Master of St Catharine's College,Cambridge,and Chancellor of Swansea University.
Sir John Irving Bell is a Canadian-British immunologist and geneticist. From 2006 to 2011,he was President of the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences,and since 2002 he has held the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was since 2006 Chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) but in 2020 became a normal member. Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020. Bell is also on the board of directors of the SOE quango Genomics England.
Sir Eldryd Hugh Owen Parry was a British academic,physician and founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust,which helps low- and middle-income country medical schools and hospitals to improve staff skill levels.
Sir John Ivan George Cadogan was a British organic chemist and Director General of the Research Councils until 1998 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmsctech/200/20005.htm
Sir Gordon William Duff,is a British medical scientist and academic. He was principal of St Hilda's College,Oxford,from 2014 to 2021. He was Lord Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield from 1991 to 2014.
Ronald Alfred LaskeyFLSW is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher.
Sir James Cuthbert Smith is an Emeritus Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute,Honorary Fellow of Christ's College,Cambridge and President of the Council at the Zoological Society of London.
Anne Jacqueline Ridley is a British biologist who is professor of Cell Biology and Head of School for Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol. She was previously a professor at King's College London.
Sir Ewen John Maclean was a British physician,who was the first Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine.
Sir Richard Henry Treisman is a British scientist specialising in the molecular biology of cancer. Treisman is a director of research at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
