MPs urge backing for UK medical research fund

Life Sciences-Charity Partnership Fund aims to reverse impact of Covid-19 on study into biggest killers

At least 50 cross-party MPs are calling on the government to back a UK medical research fund they say will reverse the devastating impact of Covid-19 on research into the UK's biggest killers, including dementia, coronary heart disease and cancer.

The Life Sciences-Charity Partnership Fund, developed by the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), has the support of politicians including Labour's Hilary Benn, Ed Davey from the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives' Sir Roger Gale. They are asking the government for 310m, which would be matched by funding from charities for at least three years.