Aims:
- To promote and support, by any means, high quality basic, strategic and applied research and related post-graduate training in the biomedical and other sciences with the aim of maintaining and improving human health.
- To advance knowledge and technology and to provide trained researchers to meet the needs of users and beneficiaries.
- To provide advice on and disseminate knowledge and promote public understanding of, research in the biomedical sciences.
Services provided:
The council has eight core objectives which express the things the Council is seeking to achieve and the partnerships to achieve the desired end-points.
- Science: to stimulate and strengthen research relevant to human health
- People: to promote training and career development
- Environments: to create and nurture productive environments for research
- Exploitation and application: to encourage others to exploit the fruits of MRC research
- Communication: to publicise research and its achievements as part of a strategy of promoting public understanding of science
- Professionalism: to continue to maintain and develop professional standards and effective business management in all activities
- User needs: to take account of the research needs of user communities – notably in the health service and public health, in industry and in the government – in developing and implementing scientific strategy
- Partnership: to develop partnerships with others providing purchasing or sponsoring research – within and out of the UK.
Address
14th Floor
One Kemble Street
London
WC2B 4AN
Phone: 01793 416 200
Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/index.htm
Email: corporate@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
