Medical Research Council Awards
Newcastle University holds two Medical Research Council awards to support our research.
For more than a hundred years the Medical Research Council has funded research that benefits human health. They support the entire spectrum of medical sciences. This includes basic science research, and clinical and population level projects.
Newcastle University holds two institutional level MRC awards. They are the Impact Accelerator Award - Confidence in Concept Fund and the Proximity to Discovery Fund.
The former supports the accelerated translation of basic science into clinical research. The latter promotes collaboration and engagement between colleagues in academia and industry.
Impact Accelerator Award - Confidence in Concept
Confidence in Concept awards encourage discovery research to progress to translational development projects. They support preliminary work or feasibility studies to establish the viability of an approach. The scheme encourages relationship development between academic and industry partners.
Newcastle has held CiC funding since 2014. We target funds to our areas of internationally recognised research strengths. These include basic discovery science and experimental medicine.
Awards have supported clinical trials in rare diseases such as:
- mitochondrial and neuromuscular
- liver disease
- cancer
- respiratory disease
Delivered CiC projects include those in:
- diagnostic technologies
- drug discovery
- early phase clinical trials
For further information, please contact cic.pm@newcastle.ac.uk.