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4 unusual facts about Medical Research Council


Janet Treasure

Janet became a Medical Research Council (MRC) training fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, in 1984.

Medical Research Council

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia's peak funding body for medical research

South African Medical Research Council, a state medical research organization in South Africa

Thalia C. Eley

Following this she was funded by two Medical Research Council (MRC, UK) fellowships; the first as Research Training Fellow with status of Lecturer (1999-2002) and the second as Research Fellow with status of Senior Lecturer (2002-08).


Charles Skinner Hallpike

In 1940 he moved to join the Medical Research Council team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London as Assistant Aural Surgeon and later Aural Physician, which post he held till his retirement in 1967.

Dario Alessi

Dario Alessi FRSE FRS (born in France, 1967) is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) and Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee.

David Barford

He studied at the University of Dundee Medical Research Council (MRC), with Philip Cohen and Tricia Cohen.

John Waterlow

After qualifying as a doctor, he was attached to the Medical Research Council's (MRC) military personnel research programme, working under BS Platt, where he spent a year studying heat stroke and heat exhaustion in Basra.

Nicolas Atwood

According to The Sunday Times, he has sent out e-mails naming Oxford academics who are targets of the animal rights movement, including Colin Blakemore, former head of the British Medical Research Council.

Paul Luzio

Luzio's research is largely concerned with intracellular membrane traffic pathways in mammalian cells and his research group is funded by a programme grant from the Medical Research Council and project grant support from the Wellcome Trust.

Pro-Test

Speakers included Colin Blakemore (then chief executive of the Medical Research Council), Evan Harris MP and Alan Duncan MP (the Shadow Cabinet Trade and Industry Secretary).

Sean Eddy

From 1992 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge UK working with John Sulston and Richard Durbin.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).


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Edward Gary Carr

Dr. Carr secured his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from the University of California at San Diego where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, worked briefly at the University of California Los Angeles, and was Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Joan A. Steitz

Steitz did her postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge (UK), where she interacted with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Mark Bretscher.

Marilyn Pryor

She attended first year chemistry classes at Victoria University of Wellington where she also served as a lab assistant, as well as an assistant dental technician to the New Zealand Medical Research Council.