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MRC: Mental health platform hubs

  Tuesday, 09 May 2023 | Funding Deadline

Apply for funding to establish a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary mental health hub. Hubs will be flagship investments, that draw together relevant expertise from across the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) spectrum and engage relevant stakeholders, to carry out impactful research on serious mental illnesses. The hubs will together constitute the core of the mental health platform (MH platform).

MRC are looking for challenge-led applications through focus on severe mental illness. They particularly encourage applicants to make the most of opportunities offered by utilising the wealth of data and development in analytical techniques and capabilities to enable stratification by different population groups.

The focus of this funding opportunity is on severe mental illness (conditions that have a significant impact on people’s lives), including but not limited to:
•    severe depression
•    schizophrenia
•    bipolar disorder
•    obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
•    panic disorder
•    post-traumatic stress (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder

Deadline for expression of interest: 9 May 2023
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