Congratulations again to everyone recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours, including Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, former MRC chief executive, for his services to cancer research, clinical research, medicine and charities.

Full story: ukri.org/news/former-mr…

Congratulations to all those from the UKRI community recognised in the New Year Honours list👏

And congratulations to former MRC chief executive Professor Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz who has received a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. #NewYearHonours

.@The_MRC’s new centre funding regime will maximise medical impact: Centres of Research Excellence, officially launched today, will also strengthen the UK’s leading position in biomedical sciences, says Patrick Chinnery, executive chair, @UKRI_News’ Medical Research Council.
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Announcing our first two MRC Centres of Research Excellence.

The £50m Centres will develop new gene therapies for currently untreatable diseases, including heart disease and rare genetic disorders.

More: orlo.uk/T197I @TheBHF

12 years and 1,500 publications later with co-funding from @The_MRC, our Aging Centres have debunked myths about ageing; empowered the public; championed healthy ageing research; and trained over 300 #research leaders. Learn more about their impact: versusarthritis.org/research/our-r…

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Festive Science Image Competition, held alongside
@The_MRC!🎄

The 1st place image (Twinkling Toxoplasma) shows human skin cells infected with a parasite & illuminated using fluorescent dyes. ✨

Read more: bit.ly/3ZDCY67

We're making sure research is relevant and can be more beneficial to everyone.

Our new public partnerships strategy will bring together the public, researchers and communities to inform what and how research is carried out.

More: ukri.org/what-we-do/pub…

A new national network of total-body PET scanners will support researchers to detect and treat diseases earlier.

The first scanner was officially unveiled yesterday by Peter Kyle and Wes Streeting at St Thomas’ Hospital.

More: orlo.uk/cg0I5

Patients at @GSTTnhs will benefit from a full-body scanner that will enable more effective diagnosis of patients with serious diseases.

It will feed findings into the National PET Imaging Platform, building a bank of data from patients to support development of new medicines.

Applications are now open for our funding opportunity on decarbonising the #health & #SocialCare system 💚

We're looking to fund research that helps the health & care system reduce carbon emissions & achieve #NetZero 🌍

#NetZerow 👉 nihr.ac.uk/funding/decarb…

@GreenerNHS @GreenerNHSaKHealthClimate

We have published proposals to bolster governance of research using stem cell-based embryo models, including legislation to ensure that research doesn't cross ethical red lines.

Read our news story:🔗bit.ly/SCBEMnews

#science #embryomodels #stemcells #makingethicsmatter

📢 The @The_MRC has published interim guidance for #biomedical software and #AI developers.

This outlines principles for responsible development in research and healthcare, plus resources for MRC-funded projects.

📄 Read the full guidance: ukri.org/publications/i…

#BiomedicalResearch #Innovation

New podcast episode! 🎙️ 'Breaking Down Microplastics: 115' explores what we really know about #microplastics and their long-term impacts on health and the environment.

Listen now: audioboom.com/posts/8613292-… @RichardKCross @CentreEnvHealth @MarineSteph #PlasticPollution

In 2023 we published a plan of the things that we would do by autumn 2025 to improve student support. Our latest blog provides an update on the key areas that we’ve been working on over the past year:

orlo.uk/aQUUC

Read about the importance of data sharing and the steps we’re taking to foster an inclusive, representative, and transparent data-sharing environment, in our new blog: orlo.uk/HHADr

🚨Last chance to register for our next environmental sustainability seminar:

💬 Tell us what you think

We're running our second annual stakeholder perceptions survey to help us tailor our activities and measure our progress as an organisation over the coming years.

Take part here - it only takes ten minutes orlo.uk/ntvxG

We’ve published our interim AI and software guidance for biomedical researchers developing models for research or clinical use.

Read it here: orlo.uk/2JJLL

We’re delighted to reveal this year’s winner of the MRC Max Perutz Award that recognises outstanding science communication from MRC PhD students.

Congratulations to Amy McCall @amycmccall, @UniofOxford for her video ‘Researching Panic Disorder in Young People’.🎉

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Natasha Seaton @NatashaSeaton2, @KingsCollegeLon, who was shortlisted for her video ‘The mind-body connection: what is psychoneuroimmunology and why does it matter?’ Congratulations!🎉5/

@NatashaSeaton2 @KingsCollegeLon All videos are available on our YouTube Shorts playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

For more on the MRC Max Perutz Award: ukri.org/what-we-do/dev… 6/