Medical Research Council (MRC)

MRC funds world-leading discovery and translational research to accelerate diagnosis, advance treatment and prevent human illness.

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Gap Fund: single-step support for medical product development

Apply to the MRC Gap Fund to address a single, high-risk development step and generate key data to de-risk a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic or other medical product.

Applicants must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Innovator route

Apply for up to 150,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

You must be a UK researcher from academia, industry or other organisations.


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Medical Research Council (MRC)
Polaris House,
North Star Avenue,
Swindon,
SN2 1FL

Events

MRC ES: putting sustainable science into practice

19 January 2026

Online and at Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA (Library room)

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