🚨Are you funded by the Foundation or the MRC (@ukri.org) & want to share your findings in ways that influence policy & practice? The latest round of our Changing Policy & Practice Awards is now open - including applications from researchers who already hold CPP funding! 👉 https://bit.ly/40ccYiN

Hear from two of last year's winners about why you should apply for our 2026 Emerging Leaders Prize! 🧠 This year it's on the theme of the early origins of health and disease, offering up to £100,000 of flexible funding. ⌛ Deadline: 12:00 on 16 April 2026 👉 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3ZQKZov

🚨Are you funded by the Foundation or the MRC (@ukri.org) & want to share your findings in ways that influence policy & practice? The latest round of our Changing Policy & Practice Awards is now open - including applications from researchers who already hold CPP funding! 👉 https://bit.ly/40ccYiN

Last week we brought together groups from across the eating disorders research community to showcase the latest research in the field and discuss the next steps to ensure this underfunded yet vital health area can continue to be supported. 👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/41xGDDA

📢 Applications are open for two fellowships in Child and Adolescent Cancer Pain, co-funded with the @ukri.org MRC! 📢 🗓️ Applications for the current round close at 16:00 on 08 April 2026. 👉 Find out all the details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4kUNLTp

🚨Are you funded by the Foundation or the MRC (@ukri.org) & want to share your findings in ways that influence policy & practice? The latest round of our Changing Policy & Practice Awards is now open - including applications from researchers who already hold CPP funding! 👉 https://bit.ly/40ccYiN

🎥 Meet the four fantastic researchers your donations are supporting through our latest Emerging Leaders Prize: https://bit.ly/4stsYti Applications are still open for our 2026 Prize, this time focused on the early origins of health and disease. Deadline is 12:00 on Thursday 16 April 2026 ⌛

🚨 A reminder that our 2026 Emerging Leaders Prize is open for applications! 🚨 It's on the theme of the early origins of health and disease, and offers up to £100,000 of flexible funding. 📆 Deadline: 12:00 on 16 April 2026 👉 Full details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3ZQKZov

Two events, one inspiring week ✨ On Tuesday, we held our #ResearchShowcase, hearing directly from our researchers & celebrating this year’s #EmergingLeadersPrize winners. On Wednesday, we brought together researchers, funders & experts to discuss the future of #EatingDisorders research in the UK.

Our 2025 Annual Report is here: https://bit.ly/4sngB1W ✨ Scroll through to see how we invested in key priority areas, the partners and organisations who helped make it happen, and the incredible progress we've achieved together. Thank you to everyone who supported our work this past year. 💚

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're seeking a #Trustee with senior-level experience in #Fundraising to join our Board of Trustees. If you're passionate about advancing medical research, we’d love to hear from you! More info: bit.ly/4rvGgox 📅 Closing date: 23 March 📅 Interview date: 14 April

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Are you a UK-based academic or clinical researcher working on movement and balance disorders in children and young people? Our new Launchpad Grant scheme offering up to £100,000 is open for applications! 🗓️ Deadline: 12:00 on Friday 27 March 2026 👉 For more details: bit.ly/3MqpYh9

🚨Are you funded by the Foundation or the MRC (@ukri.org) & want to share your findings in ways that influence policy & practice? The latest round of our Changing Policy & Practice Awards is now open - including applications from researchers who already hold CPP funding! 👉 https://bit.ly/40ccYiN

Foundation-funded research, led by Dr Aja Murray at @schoolofppls.bsky.social, highlights key experiences which increase the risk of mental health conditions in young people with ADHD. This could pave the way for tailored support services. 👉 Read more: bit.ly/4cETTxb #ADHD #MedicalResearch

Tune in to BBC Radio Scotland between 10:45-11:40 today, to hear from Dr Eve Smith, @medresfdn.bsky.social 2022 Emerging Leaders Prize winner. Eve's TARGET LUPUS project aims to transform care for young people living with #lupus. 📻➡️ https://bbc.in/4rZBX57 @uofglifesci.bsky.social#lupus#WORDDay2026

📢 Applications are open for two fellowships in Child and Adolescent Cancer Pain, co-funded with the @ukri.org MRC! 📢 🗓️ Applications for the current round close at 16:00 on 08 April 2026. 👉 Find out all the details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4kUNLTp

Our new funding call in Antimicrobial Resistance research is now open for applications! Early- to mid-career UK-based researchers with a focus in human health are encouraged to apply, for a chance to work across disciplines & build vital networks. 📅 Deadline: 2 July Apply here: shorturl.at/SlpKh

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're seeking a #Trustee with senior-level experience in #Fundraising to join our Board of Trustees. If you're passionate about advancing medical research, we’d love to hear from you! More info: bit.ly/4rvGgox 📅 Closing date: 23 March 📅 Interview date: 14 April

We don't know why women are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases than men. @bcellsrosser.bsky.social & her group at UCL are looking into the role of sex & gender in immunity. Recently, the group examined differences in immune cell responses between men & women with #lupus: shorturl.at/XBRRe

🚨 A reminder that our 2026 Emerging Leaders Prize is open for applications! 🚨 It's on the theme of the early origins of health and disease, and offers up to £100,000 of flexible funding. 📆 Deadline: 12:00 on 16 April 2026 👉 Full details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3ZQKZov

🚨Are you funded by the Foundation or the MRC (@ukri.org) & want to share your findings in ways that influence policy & practice? The latest round of our Changing Policy & Practice Awards is now open - including applications from researchers who already hold CPP funding! 👉 https://bit.ly/40ccYiN

Did you know antimicrobials can become less effective over time? This effect, known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is one of the world's greatest public health threats. To address the need for more #AMR research, we’re launching a new funding call - opening 11 March. More info tbc! #MedSky

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Are you a UK-based academic or clinical researcher working on movement and balance disorders in children and young people? Our new Launchpad Grant scheme offering up to £100,000 is open for applications! 🗓️ Deadline: 12:00 on Friday 27 March 2026 👉 For more details: bit.ly/3MqpYh9

Thanks to you, we are one of the UK's biggest funders of eating disorders research.💚 However, research into these serious illnesses is still far too underfunded, receiving just 1% of all mental health research funding. See how you can support our work: bit.ly/3OZiPFC #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're seeking a #Trustee with senior-level experience in #Fundraising to join our Board of Trustees. If you're passionate about advancing medical research, we’d love to hear from you! More info: bit.ly/4rvGgox 📅 Closing date: 23 March 📅 Interview date: 14 April

📢 Applications are open for two fellowships in Child and Adolescent Cancer Pain, co-funded with the @ukri.org MRC! 📢 🗓️ Applications for the current round close at 16:00 on 08 April 2026. 👉 Find out all the details and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4kUNLTp

Eating disorders remain among the least funded areas of mental health research, despite affecting 1.25 million people and accounting for 9% of those with a mental health condition in the UK. 📈 This #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek, learn how you can support vital research in this area: bit.ly/3OZiPFC

Chronic fatigue syndrome is debilitating & often underdiagnosed, especially in women. @theguardian.com shares a first-hand account: shorturl.at/2hhUK We’re funding research to better understand chronic pain, including Dr Robert Drake’s work on sex differences in pain development: shorturl.at/a4TzV

Eating disorders can be deeply isolating, but connecting with others can be life-changing. Whether your community is one person or many, every meaningful connection can bring hope, strength, and the reminder that #YouAreNotAlone #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek #BeatCommunity #EDAW2026

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases around. It can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal. 📈 Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it? We spoke to one of our experts in epidemiology to find out what this means for the UK, @tomwingfield.bsky.social.

Did you know that some of the immune mechanisms involved in eyes and joints are related? Visit the new website of one of our brilliant researchers, Dr Lizzy Rosser, and her team to find out how! rosserlab.com/eyes--joints...

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re highlighting our work to address neglected areas of children & young people’s mental health. Recently, two of our funded researchers from @kingsioppn.bsky.social#ChildrensMentalHealthWeekled a study exploring how young people who self-harm use social media. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Mwh2ag

📢 Are you a research leader of the future working on the early origins of health and disease? 📢 Our 2026 Emerging Leaders Prize offering up to £100,000 of flexible funding is now open for applications! 🗓️ Deadline: 12:00 on Thursday 16 April 2026 👉 For full details: https://bit.ly/3ZQKZov

Very proud that our investigating uveitis pathogenesis in young people living with arthritis is out today @natcomms.nature.com. A real team science effort made possible by collaborations across hospital & researchers with support of patients. Check it out 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 New research from @uclmedsci.bsky.social, @moorfields.bsky.social & @greatormondst.bsky.social is changing how we understand a sight-threatening condition in children with arthritis - bringing us closer to protecting children’s sight. 👁️ 👉 Read the full story on our website: bit.ly/49SfuQW

👀 New insights into childhood arthritis‑linked uveitis! #ListerFellow @bcellsrosser.bsky.social et al. reveal in @natcomms.nature.com bigger‑than‑expected role for B cells. A potential path to protect children's sight? 👉 nature.com/articles/s41... Where next for this disease? Comment & share🔄

We're proud to have supported Dr Gemma Knowles' first phase of her Bridging Divides project. We are incredibly  pleased to see Gemma win the Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize, enabling her team to dive deeper into boys’ experiences of sexism within this project.

🔎 Dr Ellen Dyer (SoGE) is co-leading a project awarded @medresfdn.bsky.social's Impact of Climate Change on Health funding, with Dr Anani Badje (PAC-CI 🇨🇮) 🦟'Preventing the spread of dengue in Côte d’Ivoire' will study relationships between #climate and #dengue fever transmission in Côte d’Ivoire ⬇️

📢 Announcing the winners of our 2025 Emerging Leaders Prize! 📢 Thanks to our generous donors, the award winners will be able to further their research into the underfunded area of children and young people's mental health, as well as developing their careers 👏 👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4qK85co

People with #ADHD face many health challenges from cardiovascular disease to metabolic disorders - yet research to date has been limited. To better understand the health inequalities linked to ADHD traits, researchers at UCL & Liverpool University have published a new study: shorturl.at/4jFKi

Janet faces the harsh realities of climate change every day as extreme heat impacts her home, her health, and her family. She is a participant in Prof Lusambili and Dr Part's study, which is working to find solutions that keep homes cooler and protect maternal and newborn health. 📖✨ bit.ly/45MZkpF

Global temperatures are already 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels, with serious implications for human health. New Foundation-funded research from Dr Khondoker Akram (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) explores how extreme heat can affect the placenta & pregnancy. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NR4Hh3 #MedSky

The Medical Research Foundation has awarded £200K to a new IOI–Nigerian Defence Academy study into how phage-based disinfectants could reduce #AMR in Nigeria. Read more👉 https://ow.ly/xWaF50XZGvV 📸 credit: R. Kometani, S. Ishihara (https://ow.ly/cASz50XZGvX#AMR

🔆 New funding award announcement! 🔆 We are backing seven exciting new collaborations between scientists in Africa and the UK to investigate the health impacts of climate change. 👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4pPW2J3

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Are you a UK-based academic or clinical researcher working on movement and balance disorders in children and young people? Our new Launchpad Grant scheme offering up to £100,000 is open for applications! 🗓️ Deadline: 12:00 on Friday 27 March 2026 👉 For more details: bit.ly/3MqpYh9

Over 80% of adolescents who die by suicide live in LMICs, like Rwanda. Intergenerational trauma, conflict & other complex challenges contribute to high rates of youth self-harm in the country. A new study led by Dr Faith Martin reveals more: https://bit.ly/3Nbhf2O @psy-fm.bsky.social #MedSky

📣 Announcing our latest Changing Policy and Practice funding awards! 📣 This will allow researchers to maximise the real-world impact of their previous Foundation or @ukri.org MRC-funded work and turn medical research into action. 👉 Read the full news story: https://bit.ly/4pvU7JP

Ever heard of ‘auto-brewery’ syndrome? We don’t fund this area directly, but stories like this show why research into neglected conditions matters. One patient has seen huge improvement after a faecal transplant - see what’s possible when overlooked research gets support! ➡️ https://bit.ly/4aTW0ML

🚨 Lassa fever is on the WHO list of priority pathogens. It’s endemic in parts of West Africa, so researchers from @medsci.ox.ac.uk, incl Foundation-funded Dr Koen Pouwels & Dr David Smith, are urging vaccine preparedness to protect those most at risk. 👉 Read full story: https://shorturl.at/4f7Gx