Motor Neurone Disease: Research

(asked on 11th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January to Question 130668, if he will name the projects that received funding in 2019-20 from the (a) Medical Research Council and (b) National Institute for Health Research.


Answered by
Amanda Solloway Portrait
Amanda Solloway
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 14th January 2021

The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded seven Motor Neurone Disease-related projects in 2019-20 in pursuant to the Answer of 11 January to Question 130668. Details of the projects can be found in the table below.

Research Organisation

Project Title

Start Date

End Date

Amount Awarded (£m)

University College London

The impact of TDP-43 on translation and the response to axonal damage in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

01/10/2019

30/09/2024

£1.9m

University College London

Elucidating early stage ALS pathomecanisms that drive mitochondrial dysfunction

01/01/2020

31/12/2022

£0.9m

University of Sheffield

Regulation of ER-mitochondria contacts in neurodegeneration

01/07/2019

30/09/2022

£0.6m

University College London

A 5 year prospective follow-up clinical and imaging investigation of demyelinating clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)

01/09/2019

31/08/2023

£0.8m

Imperial College London

Regulated proteolysis of p62/SQSTM1, nutrient-sensing and human disease

01/02/2020

31/01/2023

£0.5m

University of Edinburgh

Investigating the molecular mechanisms of mutant C9orf72 human iPSC-derived astrocyte-mediated motor neuron deficits

01/08/2019

31/01/2022

£0.2m

Newcastle University

Novel MRI Biomarkers in Neuromuscular Disease

01/09/2019

31/08/2022

£0.1m

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded no Motor Neurone Disease-related projects during this period.

Further details of all projects funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which MRC has been integrated into, can be found at https://gtr.ukri.org/.

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