Experimental Medicine Stage One
Supports United Kingdom experimental medicine teams through early-stage grants for mechanistic healthcare innovation.
The MRC Experimental Medicine programme funds researchers to investigate the causes, progression, and treatment of human disease through mechanistic studies in human participants. Projects must articulate a clear clinical challenge and involve experimental interventions or challenges of established safety — such as pharmacological, immunological, physiological, psychological, or infectious challen…
Human mechanistic research that investigates disease causes, progression, and treatment through experimental pharmacological, immunological, physiological, psychological, or infectious challenges of established safety.
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