The division among the generals came to a head at a meeting of the MRC on 26 / 27 August.

* MRC / University of Birmingham Centre for Immune Regulation ( based at the University of Birmingham )

* MRC / University of Sussex Centre in Genome Damage and Stability ( based at the University of Sussex )

* MRC / University of Bristol Centre for Synaptic Plasticity ( based at the University of Bristol )

* MRC / University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research ( based at the University of Edinburgh )

* MRC / UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS

* MRC / CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit ( based at the University of Glasgow )

* MRC / Cancer Research UK / BHF Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit ( CTSU )

* MRC / Cancer Research UK Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology ( based at the University of Oxford )

* The MRC / UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit ( MIRU ), inspired by the work of alumnus Allan McLeod Cormack who won a Nobel Prize for the CAT-scanner, studies brain and cardiac function and develops diagnostic imaging tools, one of which has led to the spinout of CapeRay.

* ISO / IEC 16485: 2000-Information technology -- Mixed Raster Content ( MRC )

* Mixed Raster Content ( MRC )-Programme of Work Allocated to ISO / IEC JTC 1 / SC 29 / WG 1

The division among the generals came to a head at a meeting of the MRC on 26 / 27 August.

Locally, each MRC unit is led by an MRC Unit Director and / or Coordinator, who matches community needs with volunteer capabilities.

Eventually, many of the duties of the MRC were overtaken by the Council of People's Commissars that was formed after the October insurrection, as well as other new and / or newly renovated administrative offices.

Noakes went on to head the Medical Research Council-funded Bioenergetics of Exercise Research Unit, which was later changed to the MRC / UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine.

* UVRI / MRC official webpage

In 2003, as part of their Forward Investment Strategy, the MRC announced plans to consider moving NIMR from its current location to a university / medical school site, to enhance its ability " to translate its biomedical research into practical health outcomes.

MRC / BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

In April 1970, Peter Pearson and Martin Bobrow at the MRC Population Genetics Unit in Oxford and Canino Vosa at the University of Oxford reported fluorescent " male " sex chromatin bodies in the nuclei of interphase cells in buccal smears treated with quinacrine dihydrochloride, which could be used to screen for Y chromosome aneuploidies like 47, XYY.

The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study, carried out by the departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Internal Medicine of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the University of Southampton in Britain, found that the children of pregnant women exposed to famine were more susceptible to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, microalbuminuria and other health problems.

In 2010, Martin Monti and fellow researchers, working at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, reported in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that some patients in persistent vegetative states actually had enough consciousness to respond to verbal instructions by displaying different pattens of brain activity on fMRI scans.

A number of Cardiff University staff have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, these include Graham Hutchings FRS, professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry and Professor Ole Holger Petersen CBE FRS, MRC Professor and Director of Cardiff School of Biosciences.

In addition, the University of Michigan housing also offers a UROP in residence option, called the Michigan Research Community, or MRC.

* MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology ( based at the University of Bristol )

* MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics ( based at Cardiff University )

* MRC Centre for Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute ( BCNI ) ( based at the University of Cambridge )

* MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival ( CNC ) ( based at the University of Cambridge )

* MRC Centre for Obesity and Related Metabolic Diseases ( based at the University of Cambridge )

* MRC Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine ( based at the University of Cambridge )

* MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit ( based at the University of Dundee )

* MRC Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology ( based at the University of Edinburgh )

* MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine ( based at the University of Edinburgh )

* MRC Institute of Hearing Research ( based at the University of Glasgow )

* MRC Toxicology Unit ( based at the University of Leicester )

Crick later became a PhD student and Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and mainly worked at the Cavendish Laboratory and the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

In January 1951, Franklin started working as a research associate at King's College London in the Medical Research Council's ( MRC ) Biophysics Unit, directed by John Randall.

He worked as a research scientist for the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) Radiobiology Unit at Harwell in Oxfordshire from 1979 – 85, where he researched the removal of radionuclides from lung tissue, before becoming Head of Computing for the Mathilda and Terence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in Charing Cross ( now owned by Imperial College ) from 1985 – 90, building computer systems for the Kennedy Institute ( also part of Hammersmith Hospital ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Research Council and Charing Cross Sunley Research Centre.

Lord Jellicoe was chairman of the council of King's College London ( KCL ) 1974-1983 ; chairman of the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) 1982-1990 ; a trustee of the National Aids Trust ( alongside the likes of Lord Goodman, David Puttnam and Robert Maxwell );

* MRC Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma ( based at King's College London )

* MRC Cell Biology Unit ( based at University College London )

* MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health ( based at University College London )

* MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology ( based at King's College London )

* MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research ( based at King's College London )

* MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases ( based at University College London )

* MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling ( based at Imperial College London )

* MRC Centre for Transplantation ( based at King's College London )

* MRC Clinical Sciences Centre ( CSC ) ( based at Imperial College London )

* MRC National Institute for Medical Research ( NIMR ) including the MRC Biomedical NMR Centre ( planned to move to the new Francis Crick Institute in 2015, a partnership between the MRC, Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London, the Wellcome Trust and University College London )

* MRC Prion Unit ( based at University College London )

* MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry ( SGDP ) Centre ( based at King's College London )