Train, develop and support the people who conduct world-class medical research
The priority for medical research charities is to fund the highest quality research to improve health and help patients. Charities need skilled researchers to fund.
Charities support researchers at all stages of their careers – from PhD to professor.
The British Heart Foundation supports talented researchers in clinical and non-clinical research, throughout their scientific careers.
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Over a fifth of charity expenditure in universities directly supports individual researchers.
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Charity-funded research fellows have high levels of retention.
The majority of fellows funded by Action Medical Research over the past 35 years continued to work in medicine and/or research, bringing considerable economic returns to the UK.
Based on a survey of 93 fellows receiving awards 1973-2005
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AMRC members supported 808 fellowships and chairs in 2008-09.
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'To maximise the impacts of research investments, excellent scientists must be given the opportunity to pursue their curiosity.'
The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity The Royal Society; 2010
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) identified a substantive UK skills deficit in biomedical sciences, skills which are at the heart of translational medicine and are key to the commercialisation of research.
Skills needs for biomedical research (PDF) ABPI; 2008