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MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1138223 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£3.7m
Grants listed (FY2024)
71
Listed grants total
£27.1m
Accounts grants total
£5.7m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

What this funder supports

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Causes funded
  • Education/training (1 grantee)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Benin (1 grantee)
  • Botswana (1 grantee)
  • Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
  • Burundi (1 grantee)
  • Cameroon (1 grantee)
  • Cape Verde (1 grantee)
  • Central African Republic (1 grantee)
  • Chad (1 grantee)
  • Comoros (1 grantee)
  • Angola (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Dr Muzamil Hassan and Dr Raina Ramnath, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of BristolFY2024£1.8minvestigate heat stress and incidence of acute kidney injury in Agricultural workers in Nigeria
Dr Sulaiman Ibrahim and Dr Ilaria Dorigatti, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, Cameroon, and Imperial College LondonFY2024£1.8minvestigate thermal performances of invasive mosquitos to enhance disease prediction and control under climate change scenarios
Dr Simon Kariuki, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), and Dr Claire Niedzwiedz, University of GlasgowFY2024£1.8minvestigate the effects of climate change on mental health in a rural coastal area and an urban settlement in Kenya
Dr Samuel Adjorlolo and Dr Amanda Mason-Jones, University of Ghana and University of YorkFY2024£1.8minvestigate the impact of flood events on maternal health in two coastal cities: Accra and Kingston upon Hull
Dr Shehu Awandu and Dr Emilie Pondeville, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya, and University of GlasgowFY2024£1.8minvestigate mosquito ecology and vector competence in the light of climate change
Dr Benedict Weobong and Dr Seyi Soremekun, University of Ghana and London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineFY2024£1.8minvestigate climate change and the mental health of vulnerable groups
Dr Emma Fisher, University of BathFY2024£1.3minvestigate perceived injustice as a driver of prolonged pain, distress, and impaired recovery in children and young people with cancer and their parents
Dr Richard Hulse, Nottingham Trent UniversityFY2024£1.3minvestigate pathways involved in chemotherapy induced pain in adults who were treated for childhood cancer
Dr Alexander Davies, University of OxfordFY2024£1.3minvestigate the mechanisms of neuropathic pain associated with immunotherapy in children with neuroblastoma
Dr Sandrine Géranton, UCLFY2024£1.3minvestigate the factors that impact the cancer pain experience in children and young people
Professor Suellen Walker, UCLFY2024£1.3minvestigate phenotyping chronic pain in male and female adolescents following haematological cancer
Professor Michael Akeroyd, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate novel testing methods for measuring hearing deterioration
Dr Mengfan Wu, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate the effects of hearing-aid use and training interventions on listening strategies and speech comprehension
Dr Jack Holman, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate hearing loss in the workplace and how we can improve wellbeing
Dr Chris Scholes, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate modelling vocal tract movement to enhance speech comprehension
Dr Vassilis Pelekanos, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate the causes of tinnitus and other hearing disorders
Dr Sally Thornton, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate how we can predict hearing loss in babies admitted to neonatal intensive care units
Dr Joseph Sollini, University of NottinghamFY2024£677kinvestigate how the hippocampus supports hearing in predictable background sounds
Dr Natalie Prescott, King’s College LondonFY2024£613kbetter understand orofacial granulomatosis
Dr Lavinia Paternoster, University of BristolFY2024£613kexplore the impact of atopic dermatitis on adolescents' mental health and neurodevelopment
Dr Verena Hinze, University of OxfordFY2024£277kinvestigate suicidal distress in adolescents with chronic pain
Dr Rhiannon Joslin, University of SouthamptonFY2024£277kinvestigate personalised physiotherapy treatment for young people experiencing pain
Dr Katie Long, King’s College LondonFY2024£210kdisseminate findings on the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the foetal brain
Dr Cally Tann, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research UnitFY2024£210kdisseminate findings on the effects of Kangaroo Mother Care on the health of new-born Ugandan babies
Professor Craig Anderson, University of New South WalesFY2024£210kdisseminate findings on management of acute stroke from intracerebral haemorrhage
Professor Andrew Shennan, King’s College LondonFY2024£210kdisseminate findings on reducing the impact of pre-eclampsia in Zambia and India
Dr Lucia D’Ambruoso, University of AberdeenFY2024£210kdisseminate findings on practical solutions for community participation in rural South Africa
Professor Julie Balen, Canterbury Christ Church UniversityFY2024£210kdisseminate findings from research into the federalisation of the health system in Nepal
Professor Kate Tchanturia, King’s College LondonFY2024£210kdisseminate findings from the PEACE pathway trial in the community and with specialist eating disorder services
Dr Azim Ansari, University of OxfordFY2024£199kunderstand how genetic variations in patients and viruses contribute to different outcomes in individuals with HCV/HBV infections
Dr Hamish Innes, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityFY2024£199kinvestigate how clinical prediction models could improve early detection of liver cancer in patients with HCV
Dr Joe Grove, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus ResearchFY2024£199kaccelerate AI-guided research to predict the structure of HBV entry proteins
the Africa Research Excellence FundFY2024£150ksupplement a research development fellowships for tropical diseases programme
Dr Anne Bertolotti and Dr Greg Jeffries at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB)FY2024£128ksupport research into brain synapses
Dr Karl Burgess, University of EdinburghFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Elizabeth V. M. Kigondu, Kenya Medical Research Institute, KenyaFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Jacqueline Cliff, Brunel University LondonFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Robert Krause, Africa Health Research Institute, South AfricaFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Esin Nkereuwem, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Celso Khosa, Instituto Nacional de Saúde, MozambiqueFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Tom Wingfield, Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Naomi Walker, Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Robindra Basu Roy, Queen Mary University of LondonFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Esto Bahizire, Catholic University of Bukavu, DRCFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Tariq Ganief, University of Cape Town, South AfricaFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Professor Paul Elkington, University of SouthamptonFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr Mina Mehanny, Ain Shams University, EgyptFY2024£62kTuberculosis research
Dr David Mukunya (Busitema University, Uganda)FY2024£39kfund a collaboration at the University of Liverpool
Dr Raylton Chikwati (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)FY2024£39kfund a collaboration at the University of Bristol
Dr Onyango Sangoro (Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania)FY2024£39kfund a collaboration at Imperial College London
Dr Cecilia Smith (University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana)FY2024£39kfund a collaboration at Birmingham City University
Dr Francesca Solmi, UCLFY2024£30ksupport additional networking and research activities to establish inter-disciplinary collaborations in eating disorders
Dr Anna Lavis, University of BirminghamFY2024£29ksupport additional networking and research activities to develop an innovative socio-cultural strategy for research, treatment and prevention
Professor Gerome Breen, King’s College LondonFY2024£29ksupport additional networking and research activities to establish and develop an NHS Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network
Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith, University of EdinburghFY2024£29ksupport additional networking and research activities to increase research innovation and capacity in the field of eating disorders
Professor Sir John Skehel at The Francis Crick InstituteFY2024£25ksupport research-related travel
Dr Andrew McKenzie at the MRC LMBFY2024£23ksupport the PhD of Julietta Molina Flores
Dr Nigel Unwin at the MRC LMBFY2024£20ksupport travel and consumable costs related to synapse research
Professor Joe Yeeles at the MRC LMBFY2024£18ksupport the PhD of Federico Fassetta
Dr Patrycja Kozik at the MRC LMBFY2024£18ksupport the PhD of Romina Koiffman
Dr Adelaide Lusambili, Africa International University, KenyaFY2024£12ksupplementary funding to support additional temperature logging equipment
Professor Terry JonesFY2024£9ksupport ongoing development of the clinical research applications of Total Body Positron Emission Tomography scanning
Dr Alex Gould at The Francis Crick InstituteFY2024£8ksupport the Crick summer student training programme
Dr Matthew Treadwell, Cardiff UniversityFY2024£6kworkshop support award
Mr James Wood, University of CambridgeFY2024£6ktravel bursary award
Professor Antony Gee, King’s College LondonFY2024£6kworkshop support award
Dr Grace Kia, Ahmadu Bello University, NigeriaFY2024£3ksupport a supplement for research to enhance integrated surveillance towards rabies control and elimination in Nigeria
Dr Thandi Kapwata and Dr Anya Burton, South African Medical Research Council and University of BristolFY2024£3ksupplemental grants to investigate the role of climate in muscle function, physical performance, and the metabolome
Dr Emmanuel Essien, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, NigeriaFY2024£3ksupport a supplement for research into workforce migration of early career psychiatrists
Dr Faith Martin, University of CardiffFY2024£2ksupplement research investigating parents’ and young people’s attitudes to suicidal ideation, suicidal behaviour, and self-harm in young people in Rwanda
Professor Ian Holt, UCLFY2024£1ksupport a supplement for research into treatments for mitochondrial DNA disorders
Kings College London, UKFY2023£663kEating disorders, Child and Adolescent Cancer Pain, and other research grants
University of Glasgow, UKFY2023£473kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, UKFY2023£341kEating disorders research
University of Southampton, UKFY2023£296kClimate change and health partnership
University of Oxford, UKFY2023£296kLupus Emerging Leaders Prize and Climate change research
The Francis Crick Institute, UKFY2023£296kSymposium and PhD extension support
Queen Square Institute of Neurology at University College London, UKFY2023£284kPhD studies support
University of Exeter, UKFY2023£263kPhD studies support
University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaFY2023£247kChanging Policy and Practice Award
Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, PakistanFY2023£247kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UKFY2023£243kClimate change and health partnership
University of Nottingham, UKFY2023£217kChild and Adolescent Cancer Pain research
Africa Health Research Institute, South AfricaFY2023£212kClimate change and health partnership
Africa International University, KenyaFY2023£207kClimate change and health partnership
African Population and Health Research Centre, SenegalFY2023£190kClimate change and health partnership
Queen’s University Belfast, UKFY2023£177kGene Therapy skills training
Stellenbosch University, South AfricaFY2023£165kClimate change and health partnership
Imperial College London, UKFY2023£159kClimate change and health partnership
University of Coventry, UKFY2023£156kPhD studies support
MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, UKFY2023£154kPhD studies support
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina FasoFY2023£153kClimate change and health partnership
Bahir Dar University, EthiopiaFY2023£153kClimate change and health partnership
University of Bristol, UKFY2023£151kClimate change and health partnership
University of Edinburgh, UKFY2023£133kEating disorders research
University of Health & Allied Sciences, GhanaFY2023£131kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
Queen Mary University of London, UKFY2023£109kPhD studies support
Brighton & Sussex Medical School, UKFY2023£97kClimate change and health partnership
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UKFY2023£64kClimate change and health partnership
University of Dundee, UKFY2023£60kPhD studies support
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UKFY2023£35kPhD stipend supplements
University of Lagos, NigeriaFY2023£30kClimate change and health partnership
University of Newcastle, UKFY2023£15kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, ItalyFY2023£11kPhD studies support
University of Liverpool, UKFY2023£11kLupus Emerging Leaders Prize
University of Leeds, UKFY2023£11kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
University of Northumbria, UKFY2023£10kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
University College London, UKFY2023£9kEating disorders research
University of St Andrews, UKFY2023£9kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
University of Birmingham, UKFY2023£9kEating disorders research
University for Development Studies, GhanaFY2023£9kClimate change and health partnership
Instituto Nacional de Saude, MozambiqueFY2023£9kClimate change and health partnership
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, UKFY2023£6kPhD studies support
Ifakara Health Institute, TanzaniaFY2023£6kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Johannesburg, South AfricaFY2023£5kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
University of Leicester, UKFY2023£5kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
MRC/UVRI and LSHTM, UgandaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Nottingham Trent University, UKFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Abomey-Calavi, BeninFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Cape Town, South AfricaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Copenhagen, DenmarkFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Kabianga, KenyaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Leicester, UKFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, NigeriaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, BotswanaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Institut Pasteur de Dakar, SenegalFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at NOVA University of Lisbon, PortugalFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, KenyaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, KenyaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Kenya Medical Research Institute, KenyaFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKFY2023£4kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, NigeriaFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Ahmadu Bello University, NigeriaFY2023£3kTravel grant (Epidemiology)
British Geological Survey at University of Nottingham, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Institute de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina FasoFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Institute of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of Glasgow, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Karolinska Institutet, SwedenFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, KenyaFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, The GambiaFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research at University of GhanaFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, SwitzerlandFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Cambridge, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Coimbra, PortugalFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Gondar, EthiopiaFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Leeds, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Manchester, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Oxford, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
University of Surrey, UKFY2023£3kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)
Angola Health Research Center, AngolaFY2023£2kResearch capacity in Africa (AREF)

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