Are you a research-qualified healthcare professional? Looking for flexible funding to support a collaborative research project and protected research time? Apply: orlo.uk/ngK7l or join our webinar to find out more on 11 September: orlo.uk/PnNnQ NIHR Research

Symptoms of long Covid, including brain fog and fatigue, may be linked to blood clots according to the MRC/NIHR Research supported Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study.

This is a key advancement in our understanding of how long Covid develops: orlo.uk/n4ra6 University of Oxford

As we prepare to launch round two of funding for new MRC Centres of Research Excellence in September, Professor Maddy Parsons from our Major Investments Board shares some reflections and tips from round one: orlo.uk/Ydr5t

Final 'remarkable' results from a landmark study by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and partners show that combining the RTS,S #malariavaccine with antimalarial drugs – in areas of Africa with seasonal malaria – continued to dramatically reduce malaria cases and deaths in young children over 5 years

We've published our initial findings from the questionnaire data from the first 17k participants.

Read our summary blog:shorturl.at/wBOQ3

Or read the full article: shorturl.at/istzT

You can still sign up to #DecodeME : rb.gy/0lxxx

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Analysis of 17,000 DecodeME the ME/CFS Study Questionnaires now freely available online: openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/articles/3-20 Medical Research Council NIHR Research MRC_HGU Action for M.E. The University of Edinburgh #pwME

New research from the DecodeME the ME/CFS Study has found that women with ME/CFS experience more symptoms and co-occurring conditions than men.

Increasing age, and 10 years from ME/CFS onset were also found to be risk factors for severity of illness: orlo.uk/EmivK

Trust is critical to our work. We're resharing the 1998 independent inquiry report covering the use of radioisotopes (radioactive tracers) in 1950s/60s MRC-supported studies. The report led to guidance which we continue to update today. Full statement: ukri.org/who-we-are/mrc…

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Prof Patrick Chinnery as Executive Chair of MRC. Prof Chinnery, who is currently MRC’s Director of Clinical Sciences and Prof of Neurology Cambridge University, will take up his new role in October. More: orlo.uk/mit7G

Listen to my experience of having AI analyse the age of my heart on BBC Sounds Five Questions on. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

How old is your heart? We looked at genetic differences and risk factors that affect the age of the heart and circulation. Our new paper in Nature Communications points to genes regulating inflammation and stress response. #whyCMR nature.com/articles/s4146…

The UKRI Creating Opportunities Evaluation Development Fund is open now. You'll undertake small-scale evaluation activities of interventions that increase opportunities and reduce disparities in economic, health and social outcomes.
Info: orlo.uk/S79Sr
Closes 31 October

More reasons to eat vegetables – even when you’re ill! 🥬🌱🥦

A team of researchers from across the Crick has shown that a diet rich in chemicals found in vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and kale helped mice to fight off a lung infection.
crick.ac.uk/news/2023-08-1…

'It’s very likely that there will be bed bugs on the move much more again and travelling in people’s suitcase...'

Professor James Logan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in The Telegraph on how travel boom & popularity of furniture recycling may be driving rise in bed bug infestations:👇

telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer…

Our Starter Grants enable Clinical Lecturers to pursue their research work.

We offer up to £30k over 2 years for research costs such as consumables.

To date, for every £1 in funding awarded, almost £13 has been leveraged in further grants 💸

Apply now: acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-sch…

This scheme is open to MRC Fellows who hold a Clinician Scientist Fellowship (CSF), Career Development Award (CDA), New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG) or Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) award.

If you're interested, apply by 4pm on 14 September⬇️

The UKRI Creating Opportunities Trial Accelerator Fund is looking for applicants to test and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at spreading opportunities and reducing disparities in economic, health and social outcomes: orlo.uk/WskS9
Closes: 31 October