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Our ambition:

AcceleratingAfricanScience

The case for investing in exceptionalAfrican health researchers

Kofi Annan “We must invest in promising young African scientists, they are the future innovators and leaders that will transform our continent’s health. The Africa Research Excellence Fund is Africa-based, African-led, for African scientists and we are all committed to African health. It is an important initiative.”

2 | AREF Africa Research Excellence Fund

Nurturing African health research

Thirty-two years ago, I returned home from Britain to work at (and later lead)

the UK Medical Research Council’s remarkable Unit in The Gambia.

I was tempted there from a satisfying and safe career in the UK by a deep

conviction: that for African scientists and doctors who care about saving lives

in Africa, there is nowhere better to be.

AREF has been established through the Medical Research Foundation (MRF)

– the charitable arm of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) – to pioneer

an active and focused intervention that nurtures African science at its most

vulnerable points, supporting and developing the people (specifically early-career health researchers), the

projects, the environment and the infrastructure that will maximise the impact of all future investment.

The talent is there, but it needs targeted support to realise its potential. AREF exists to provide step-

ping-stones and a helping hand for young African scientists to become the continent’s scientific leaders.

AREF is different from other initiatives; it represents a unique opportunity. AREF is African-led for African

scientists who are committed to African health. We aspire to become a permanent and trusted partner

within the health research funding landscape. We are unashamedly focused on personal excellence: on

seeking out and nurturing exceptional talent for our Fellowships and Accelerate Grants. We are building a

unique pan-African scientific collaboration that transcends Anglo/Francophone and North/South barriers.

The AREF Academy will identify and fill gaps in Africa’s health research learning with a collaborative and

blended approach to training.

AREF’s primary focus is on the postdoctoral period; this has been identified as the critical period of career

vulnerability (between one and six years after PhD award) when African scientists are more likely to move

from medical research to pursue a more attractive career outside of research. We aim to ensure that many

more top-flight African health scientists remain in research in Africa, realise their scientific potential and

together create a critical mass.

Our programmes and research funding will be independent. We will be inclusive, able to collaborate with

all those working to advance Africa’s research capacity and poised to play a convening role across the

continent. The improved quality of Africa’s research publications and transformative collaborations forged

by AREF and our alumni will be measures of our success.

We are seeking to raise £11.5 million by 2020 to launch and establish AREF and realise our ambitions.

With substantial commitment from the Medical Research Foundation and a significant donation from the

Wellcome Trust we have made a start. Join us in supporting the next generation of African science leaders

to transform health in Africa and the wellbeing of the world.

Professor Tumani Corrah CBE, MRG, MD, FRCP, FACP, PWACP

Director, The Africa Research Excellence Fund

Emeritus Director, MRC Unit, The Gambia

Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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The Need

Africa shoulders a crippling share of the world’s disease burden and this is holding back the continent’s

economic development. We know that economic progress is possible but that progress demands better

health. Better health needs better African-led health research and better translation of that research into

healthcare policy and practice. The African population is projected to continue its rapid growth in the

coming decades - from 15% to 20% of the global population by 2030. Progress in Africa is therefore

critical to ending preventable death across the world.

The future priorities for health research in Africa (and globally) are broad. We need to strengthen local and

national health systems; roll out known methods of effective disease control; contain or eliminate

neglected tropical diseases and develop new vaccines and tools for disease control.

Our continued focus on infectious diseases, which remain one of the continent’s biggest challenges, will

be vital. However, of growing concern is the projected surge in non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes and pulmonary disease are forecast to increase massively in

Africa over the coming decade (WHO). Currently 28 million - more than 75% of the world’s total of

38 million - deaths caused by NCDs occur in middle- and low-income countries. Yet according to a recent

(2015) report by the UK Collaboration on Development Sciences (UKCDS), only 5% of health research

capacity strengthening programmes are focused on NCDs. More research into NCDs is imperative.

A cadre of excellent new African health researchers is emerging. However, the brightest stars

(particularly at the postdoctoral stage) are being tempted abroad and into other sectors. Africa still lacks

an adequate supply of the incentives and training opportunities that give researchers the drive, skills and

networks to carry out international-standard research and unlock research funding. There are also many

challenges within African health systems; for example the process of science training and qualification in

Africa is currently far too slow - the average age for a PhD qualification in Africa is much higher than in

the North. Progress can and must be accelerated.

Investment and Impact:

Hundreds of millions of pounds have been invested building health research capacity in Africa and the

science is flourishing in places. Without this progress, the AREF initiative would not be possible.

But there is still a long way to go in building Africa’s capacity to deliver excellent health research that is

translated into national policies.

Professor Sir John Savill Chief Executive, Medical Research Council (UK)

“I am excited that the MRC is enabling Tumani to build on his achievements as a

successful director of MRC Unit, The Gambia to nurture the next generation of

African science leaders through AREF.”


Progress is held up by a lack of opportunities for talented young scientists to acquire specialised research

and leadership skills; to build the collaborative networks that are key to international-standard research;

and to win funding for research proposals. It is stalled by the lack of funding for talented scientists in

African institutions. These in turn stand in the way of African research institutions developing into centres

of excellence: the most important determinant of the quality of scientific training is the environment

in which it occurs.

Thanks to the generous donor support of the MRF and Wellcome Trust, AREF recently launched its first

Programme with a call for applications for postdoctoral Research Development Fellowships. The significant

pre-launch interest in these awards demonstrates the need for this programme.

Case study: Dr Brenda Kwambana“I’m from Zimbabwe and I had offers to do my PhD at UK institutions but instead chose

to do it in The Gambia while registered at Leicester University. This gave me the

opportunity to have a direct impact on the lives of individuals. When you are in the US or

UK, you work on samples, you’re not connected to the people. Doing research where the

diseases are gives you a wealth of research options to pursue, if you can get the funding.

I now have my own research funding. I am lucky. There are very, very few good opportunities for Africans to

get the kind of training that gives them the credibility as scientists to compete for funding. AREF will help many

more promising young researchers to develop that credibility.

If I’d done my PhD in the UK, I doubt I’d have returned to Africa. But, if African researchers can make their

way competitively in Africa, we stay because it’s personal for us. We know people who have died from TB,

pneumonia or HIV. Once there are enough high calibre African researchers in Africa, they will be able to

build the next generation themselves.”

This quantitative analysis by

UKCDS (2015) of available

funding opportunities by career

levels shows a ‘career cliff’ in the

number of funding programmes

for early career researchers

(20% of the number available

for PhDs).

AREF’s focus on early-career researchers is validated by the recent comprehensive review of health

research programmes by the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences UKCDS (2015). The review

highlights the “limited postdoctoral support opportunities”, during what is a “challenging period for LMIC

[Low and Middle Income Countries] researchers”. In addition, the review also identifies that there is

“greater support for established rather than early career researchers”.


The AREF Solution

We have established AREF (the Africa Research Excellence Fund) to accelerate the progress of African

health research in West, Central and East Africa. AREF, through its fellowships, grants and through the AREF

Academy, will give hundreds more African researchers a helping hand to gain the experience,

support, track records, networks and confidence they need to build African research institutions and drive

the continent’s medical science. Our aim is to provide the vital stepping-stones that will lead to

home-grown research capacity of the highest quality.

We know that to achieve results requires excellent medical research at all levels, across Africa and in

collaboration with a country’s health systems. We know that it takes African scientists who are deeply

committed to improving international health and who have a nuanced understanding of African health

systems and the opportunities and challenges therein. We know that it takes scientists who are committed

to learning overseas (for the moment) and then returning to work in Africa for the long-term. We know

that it takes exceptional leaders who will nurture the next generation, build the pipeline, and strengthen

institutions on the continent to create ‘centres of scientific excellence’.

AREF will work to support early-career African scientists with a special focus on the postdoctoral period,

when research opportunities to practice overseas and in other sectors become more likely. This is also

an important formative point when well-trained researchers become excellent scientists. Our

challenges are to provide the stepping-stones that fast-track these talented individuals, and to build

an enabling environment.

The Economist (August 2014) “In health care, more clinical trials are taking place in Africa than before. The vast majority of local

laboratories still fail to meet the World Health Organization’s basic standards, but there are a growing number

of exceptions…

“The number of scientific papers produced by Africans has tripled in the past decade, to over 55,400 in

2013… but that still only accounts for 2.4% of the world’s total.”


Stepping Stones to Success The training opportunities AREF will provide, through the AREF Academy and AREF awards, will be vital

enablers for young researchers at key stages in their careers. They will also strengthen African research

institutions which, to flourish, depend entirely on their people to lead, to collaborate and to compete

for funding.

Collaboration AREF will complement existing training programmes in global health research. MRC research Units in The

Gambia and Uganda, leading African universities in Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, South Africa. Mali

and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and leading universities in the UK, US and Europe, have already

agreed formally to host and mentor AREF fellows.

GovernanceAREF is being established as a charitable trust under the auspices of the Medical Research Foundation

(MRF). The MRF is a registered charity and it, and its predecessor charities, has been funding research for

over 80 years www.medicalresearchfoundation.org

The MRF’s trustees have ultimate responsibility for AREF and have established an AREF Board and Advisory

Panel to provide governance oversight and direction to the AREF Director.

Investment We are seeking £11.5 million by 2020 to fund AREF’s four focus areas:

1. People

3. Place (AREF Academy)

2. Projects

4. AREF Infrastructure


1. People•£2.7m over five years

AREF’s aim is to extend and sustain its newly launched fellowship programme so as to deepen the skills and

accelerate the career paths of high-potential, early-stage researchers from across the continent for

decades to come.

AREF Postdoctoral Fellowships (12 awards per year for five years = £2,700,000)The aim of the AREF Fellowships is to accelerate the development of talented African scientists at leading

institutions by enhancing their potential to lead research initiatives, strengthen lasting collaborations and

develop research proposals for competitive funding.

These awards will enable early-career postdoctoral researchers to spend up to twelve months in

world-class research institutions in Africa or the North to pursue well-specified programmes of training

both in specialised technologies and methods and in generic researcher development.

Fellows will also engage with potential research collaborators, independent mentors and wider networks.

Fellows will benefit from a programme of broader skills training and coaching in research management,

for example grant writing and peer review.

Case Study: Dr Alfred Ngwa

“While I was doing my PhD in Cameroon, I had three fellowships, funded by Sweden’s

International Science Programme, which took me to British and Swedish universities and

allowed me to fill gaps in my experience. I trained in molecular biology tools and was also

exposed to computational tools. I learned a lot about bio-informatics and how to use

model organisms.

“I now have a five-year Fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council, which funds my research into the

development of drug resistance in malaria until 2017. I couldn’t have won this Fellowship and done the research

I wanted to do without the fellowships I had during my PhD. They gave me the chance to meet people with

whom I still collaborate and opened my eyes to what was happening out there.

“They also helped me improve my publication rate dramatically and that helped to raise my profile. It’s

important that I’ve won my own funding. It means that my research agenda is driven by me, not by

my collaborators. This AREF initiative would speed things up a lot in the development of young scientists

in Africa.”


2. Projects•£1.5m over five years

AREF ‘Accelerate’ Awards (12 awards per year for five years = £1.5m)Guidance and support for talented researchers to learn through the process of applying for, securing and

managing their own project budgets, is critically important. AREF will provide such opportunities for

exceptional African researchers in Africa.

These competitive seed-funding awards will complement the AREF Fellowships and will enable excellent

early-stage researchers to pilot innovative research ideas with the potential to become substantive

research projects that could attract significant funding. They could be used to generate robust data,

inform a research design or develop and validate new methods and tools. Awardees will receive active

support and tutoring and will gain vital experience in writing competitive grant applications and in building

the evidence base that will attract further grants.

Having the experience of applying for and securing funding, and then managing a research project will

ensure that the recipients of these seed-funding grants will be much better placed to take advantage of

existing opportunities at the intermediate career stage for research fellowships and grants from the major

awarding bodies such as the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, Medical Research Council, European and

Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Global Fund.

Insight: Professor Fred Binka, Vice Chancellor, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana, West Africa

“Every country in Africa needs its own health research. Without research, we

are just adapting public health interventions, not understanding what works in

our countries, not finding the answers to our own questions. The data is here in

Africa. There is so much data and so much to be done. But our scientists need training to do it and

we need to ensure they do not stay in the North. AREF’s “sandwich-training” approach gives people

access to the things that are not yet abundantly available in Africa – the highest levels of skills and

facilities and international networks – while keeping them in Africa. This is good not just for Africa but

for everyone. In a globally mobile era, a threat in one place threatens the whole world. If we have

more capacity in Africa, we’ll be better at facing those threats together.”


3. Place: AREF Academy•£6.35m over five years

African health research needs skilled scientists at all levels and a path for their development and career

progress. This is the aim of the AREF Academy, which will initially be hosted by the MRC Units in

The Gambia and Uganda, supported by online and eLearning facilities. The Academy, over time will need

its own teaching facilities as well as accommodation for all participants.

The scope of the AREF Academy’s programmes will be shaped by a continent-wide initial ‘training needs

and supply assessments’ and through regular monitoring and evaluation. The programme will meet the

technical training needs of a broad community of research institutions across Africa and also develop

the ‘softer’ skills (including leadership and grant-writing) that are essential to personal and organisational

development.

The AREF Academy training programmes will deliver what excellent researchers and institutions need: the

workforce of technicians, fieldworkers, clinicians and scientists able to collect and manage diverse data

to high quality standards. It will train researchers to analyse their own data rather than outsourcing it to

collaborators abroad; to process and analyse samples to exacting international standards; to learn new

research techniques and methods; to develop the skills to build and manage teams and their own careers;

to win grant funding; and to publish research.

Professor Souleymane Mboup, Director of the Bacteriology/Virology Laboratories, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

“Some twenty or so years ago, Tumani and I discussed the need for young

African scientists to develop to the stage where they become competent,

grant-winning researchers. We were convinced of the need to find Africans to make meaningful

contributions to the continent’s health needs. It is [therefore] heartening to see Tumani take the bold

step of leading an initiative focused on the development of the next generation of African scientists

in Africa.”


Insight: Professor Moses Bokharie, Director, Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

“I’m very pleased to see that project and grant management skills will be a

focus of the AREF. These skills are extremely important as their absence is

a limiting factor in many ways… It’s excellent too that training for technicians and fieldworkers will

be available. Researchers can’t get anywhere if they aren’t supported.”

AREF Academy Budget:

Annual Cost 5-Year CostStart Up Costs Training needs assessment,

programme design- £50,000

Capital Costs Accommodation, lecture theatre, training centre

- £4,650,000

Staff Costs Academy Director, Trainers & Administrator

£185,000 £925,000

Scholarships AREF Academy full scholarships for all costs

£50,000 £250,000

Mentorship Coaching and Generic skills programme

£10,000 £50,000

Running Costs Recurrent cost of running the Academy

£75,000 £375,000

eLearning Costs Tbc – current consultation

- £50,000

Total £320,000 £6,350,000


4. AREF Infrastructure•£1.0m over five years

AREF is a registered Trust charity (England and Wales) within the Medical Research Foundation (MRF),

the charitable arm of the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC). The MRC is enabling AREF through the

MRF to establish itself in terms of its programmes, reputation and funding.

It is AREF’s ambition to generate sufficient investment to enable it to stand on its own within two years.

Realising this ambition will require the following investment in AREF’s infrastructure:

AREF Infrastructure Budget:

Annual Cost

Principal Staff Director, Deputy Director, and Executive Support -

Fundraising Fundraising Director, Officer, Budget & Support £175,000

Running Costs Tbc £25,000

Total £200,000

Graça Machel Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa – AREF Partner Institution

“Your gift will be the water at the roots of the tree that bears education as its fruit.

Your sacrifice will be to ensure access – into perpetuity – via the door through which

generation after generation of Africa’s children will walk into a brighter future for themselves, their

families, their society and ultimately this continent.”

Professor Francine Ntoumi (Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale; Faculty of Health Sciences, University Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo)

"Numbers of Africans with PhDs have increased but numbers of African

research scientists winning international health research grants lag. AREF has been

created to address this major concern. I wholeheartedly support its focus on the development of

the next generation of grant-winning African scientists. I am delighted that AREF transcends

Anglo/Francophone barriers. It is what we need in 2015: new spirit, new energy and excellence in Africa."


Appendix 1Africa Research Excellence Fund – Board and Advisory Panel Members

Member Role Position/Affiliation

1. Professor Charles Mgone Chair – AREF Board Executive Director of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

2. Professor Danny Altmann MRF Trustee; AREF Board Member Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London

3. Professor Sir Andy Haines MRF Trustee; AREF Board Member Professor of Public Health & Primary Care, LSHTM

4. Mr George Fowlis AREF Board Member Consultant Urological Surgeon – BMI Cavell Hospital, UK

5. Mr Mark Radford AREF Board Member Chief Executive at The Magdi Yacoub Research NetworkManaging Editor – Global Cardiology Science & Practice

6. Dr Yvonne Greenstreet AREF Board Member Senior Vice President and Head of Medicines Development for the Specialty Care Business Unit at Pfizer Inc: Senior Vice President and Chief of Strategy, R&D at GlaxoSmithKline

7. Professor Francine Ntoumi AREF Board Member Chair and Executive Director of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Science Leader, Central Africa Network on Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, CANTAM

8. Dr Wendy Ewart AREF Board Member Ex Deputy Chief Executive, Medical Research Council, UK

9. Professor Tumani Corrah AREF Board Member MRC Director Africa Research Development, AREF Director

10. Professor Hannah Akuffo Member – Advisory Panel Head of Team, Swedish Development Cooperation Agency;Chair, ESSENCE on Health Research;Chair of the EDCTP Governing Board

11. Professor Fred Newton Binka Member – Advisory Panel Vice-Chancellor – University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana

12. Dr Ralf Clemens Member – Advisory Panel SVP GRID Rio


Appendix 1Africa Research Excellence Fund – Board and Advisory Panel Members

Member Role Position/Affiliation

13. Honourable Professor Awa Marie Coll-Seck

Member – Advisory Panel Minister of Health & Social Action, Senegal; Director of The Roll Back Malaria Partnership; Board of Directors at the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), Medicines for Malaria Venture, and Innovative Vector Control Consortium

14. Professor Lord Ara Darzi Member – Advisory Panel Baron Darzi of Denham; Surgeon - Imperial College London; Chair of London Health Commission

15. Dr Sonny Folorunsho Kuku Member – Advisory Panel Joint Chief Medical Director at the Eko Hospital and FounderChair of Ecobank Nigeria Plc; Chair Midas Stockbrokers Limited

16. Professor Peter Hoyer Member – Advisory Panel Medical Director, University Hospital of Essen; Paediatric Nephrologist

17. Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Member – Advisory Panel Ex-Prime Minister of Mozambique

18. Professor Peter Piot Member – Advisory Panel Director of the LSHTM and a Professor of Global Health. Chair of the MRC Global Health Group andMember of the MRC Strategy Board

19. Dr Rwamahe Rutakumwa Member – Advisory Panel Post-Doctoral Social Scientist in Social Science Research at MRC Uganda Unit

20. Mr John Jeans Member – Advisory Panel Chair of Cardiff University Council, Chair MRC Technology Board, Ex-MRC COO


Appendix 2Africa Research Development Office & Africa Research Excellence Fund - Partner Institutions

Institution Area of Support Lead Supporter

1. MRC Unit, The Gambia, THE GAMBIA

Internships, Placements, site facilities for training

Professor Umberto D’Alessandro – Unit Director

2. MRC Unit, Uganda, UGANDA Internships, Placements, site facilities for training

Professor Pontiano Kaleebu – Unit Director

3. University of Ghana, Legon, GHANA

Internships, Placements, facilities for training

Professor John Gyapong – Provost Research, Innovation and Development

4. Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, GHANA

Internships, Placements, facilities for training

Professor Kwadwo Koram – Director

5. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GHANA


Professor Peter Donkor – Director Office of Grants and Research

6. University of Yaoundé, CAMEROON

Professor Jean Claude Mbanya – Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

7. International Foundation Against Infectious disease of Nigeria , (IFAIN) NIGERIA

Facilities for training fellows Dr Stephen Obaro – Director

8. University of Sierra Leone, SIERRA LEONE


Dr Mohammed Samai – Acting Provost

9. Universite des Sciences Techniques et Technologies; MALI


Professor Ogobara K. Doumbo – Professor and Director

10. Mwanza Intervention Trials UnitTANZANIA


Professor Saidi Kapiga – Scientific Director

11. Centre for Vaccine Development, MALI


Proffessor Samba O. Sow – Director

12. Universite Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) Dakar, SENEGAL


Professor Oumar GAYE – Head Parasitology Department, Coordinator UCAD’s Graduate programme in Human Diseases & Biology

13. Universite Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD)Dakar, SENEGAL


Professor Souleymane Mboup – Director Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology

14. Centre de Recherche Entomologique de Cotonou (CREG), BENIN Republic


Dr Alain Nahum – Researcher

15. Fondation Congolese pour la Recherché Médicale, Rep. of CONGO


Professor Francine NTOUMI – Executive Director

16. Organization for the coordination of control against endemics in Central Africa (OCEAC)

Information, networking and coordination support

Dr Constant R Ayenengoye – Executive Secretary & Dr Parfait Awono


Appendix 2Africa Research Development Office & Africa Research Excellence Fund - Partner Institutions

Institution Area of Support Lead Supporter

17. West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO), BURKINA FASO

Information, networking and coordination support

Dr Xavier Crespin – Director General & Dr Issaka Sombie

18. University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA


Professor Gregory Hussey – Dean

19. University of Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA

Placement of fellows, research methodological skills training of research administrators

Professor Beverley Kramer – Professor of Anatomy & Assistant Dean: Research and Postgraduate support &Professor Stephen Tollman – Head: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health

20. University of Manchester, UK Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Professor Julian Davis – Acting Vice President and Dean, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences & Dr Judith Williams

21. University of Southampton, UK Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Professor Nyovani Madise – Co-Director Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy

22. University of Antwerp, BELGIUM Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Professor Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden – Head, International Health

23. University of Oxford, UK Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Dr Egeruan Imoukhuede – Coordinator Oxford Vaccinology in Africa Course

24. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Dr Gian Luca Di Tanna – Lecturer in Medical Statistics and EpidemiologyJustin Parkhurst – Senior Lecturer

25. Imperial College, UK Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, training of research administrators

Professor Mike Levin – Chair in Paediatrics & International Child Health

26. University College, London, UK Placement of fellows Professor Alimuddin Zumla – Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health

27. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA

Placement of fellows, proposal writing, training of research administrators

Dr Stephen Obaro – Director, International Paediatric Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA

28 University of Cambridge, UK Placement of fellows, research methodological skills, mentorship programme.

Professor David Dunne -Director Cambridge-Africa Programme

We would love to hear from you if you are interested in supporting our work or hearing more about our plans.

The Africa Research Excellence Fund is a charitable trust under the umbrella of the Medical Research Foundation.

Charity registration number: 1138223. To find out more and how to donate please visit:

www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk

Medical Research Foundationc/o Medical Research CouncilOne Kemble StreetLondon WC2B 4AN

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