Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)

Medical Research Council

Abbreviation	MRC
Formation	1913
Type	Research Council within UKRI
Purpose	Co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom
Location	Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Region served	United Kingdom
Executive Chair	Patrick Chinnery
Main organ	MRC Council
Parent organisation	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology UK Research and Innovation
Website	www.ukri.org/councils/mrc/

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), which came into operation 1 April 2018, and brings together the UK's seven research councils, Innovate UK and Research England. UK Research and Innovation is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The MRC focuses on high-impact research and has provided the financial support and scientific expertise behind a number of medical breakthroughs, including the development of penicillin and the discovery of the structure of DNA. Research funded by the MRC has produced 32 Nobel Prize winners to date.