MRC/NIHR DecodeME Showcase meeting online and in person Nov 6th

[Eleanor]

re MRC saying they are ready and waiting to fund what they consider to be good research proposals:

It's hard to see what's wrong with SequenceME from that point of view, though. Yet Sonya said the outcomes they were waiting on were all from US funding sources.

Does that mean SequenceME has been turned down for funding by MRC, or never applied?

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Does that mean SequenceME has been turned down for funding by MRC, or never applied?

It seems pretty clear from Sonya's talk that the MRC is not expected to fund SequenceME. That is inexcusable if so. My local genetics friend said that funding it is a no-brainer. But the MRC never funded a whole lot of things it should have. They are an establishment club who follow on, not a vanguard.

 

[Eleanor]

It seems pretty clear from Sonya's talk that the MRC is not expected to fund SequenceME. That is inexcusable if so. My local genetics friend said that funding it is a no-brainer.

It just seems we are in bizarro-world when the MRC co-hosts a showcase intended in part to "Highlight the bespoke support available from NIHR and MRC for researchers in preparing applications", including representation from an organisation which can't apply to the MRC to get funding for its flagship research having been given to understand that such a proposal would inevitably be turned down!

 

[Robert 1973]

It seems pretty clear from Sonya's talk that the MRC is not expected to fund SequenceME. That is inexcusable if so. My local genetics friend said that funding it is a no-brainer. But the MRC never funded a whole lot of things it should have. They are an establishment club who follow on, not a vanguard.

For 30+ years the MRC has told us that the lack of high-quality research proposals is the reason it hasn’t funded more biomedical ME/CFS research. I think this confirms that that is not true. There may have been a lack of high-quality applications but the problems clearly run deeper than that.