Select Committee on Science and Technology Written Evidence

Memorandum 110

Supplementary submission from the Medical Research Council (MRC)

  The MRC has received one response-mode application in the field of space medicine over the past five years (in 2001-02). This application was unsuccessful.

  The average percentage success rate of response-mode grant applications across all topics in the five years 2001-02 to 2005-06 was 22% (range 18%-38%).

May 2007

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Prepared 17 July 2007