Engineering: Warwick’s new medical school makes MRC partnership

 

Warwick Medical School has become the first new medical school to bring about a strategic partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC).

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The partnership links the council with the Medical School and the Department of Biological Sciences.

As part of the agreement, the Medical school will receive more than £750,000 from the MRC for some new initiatives.

In order to make another important alliance, the MRC has given Warwick Medical School the support to attract Professor Martin Feelisch, a world-renowned researcher from the Boston University School of Medicine to the UK.

Feelisch’s particular areas of expertise are cardiovascular pharmacology and drug metabolism, free radical signalling and the chemical biology of Nitric Oxide.

Professor Feelisch, who joined Warwick on 2 July, did so because he was impressed with the quality of science, he said: "It is the energy and enthusiasm for research that transpires when you talk to investigators on the campus and the pace with which the Medical School is moving forward.

"The atmosphere here instils the feeling that anything is possible. If you can’t pull it off at Warwick, it isn’t going to happen elsewhere."

Funding for doctorates

As part of a pilot project, the MRC is also funding six studentships for a new Doctoral Training Centre in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at Warwick Medical School.

The centre will be a collaboration between Warwick Medical School and the Department of Biological Sciences and will provide training in the multi-disciplinary skills required for biomedical research.

The students will undertake a taught MSc course in year 1, leading to an MSc in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, followed by a PhD in years 2 to 4.

Professor Yvonne Carter, Dean of Warwick Medical School, said she was excited by the new Strategic Partnership.

She said: "I am confident this partnership will be extremely rewarding both for the University of Warwick and the MRC.

"Martin Feelisch is a leading scientist with a truly outstanding international reputation and we are delighted to welcome him here.

"The new Doctoral Training Centre fits perfectly with Warwick Medical School’s ambitions and promises great things for the future," she concluded.

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