This month the Medical Research Council(MRC) celebrates 100 years as one of the world’s most prestigious scientific organisations. Back in 1913, the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council was formed, which then went on to become what we now know as the MRC.
With our modern perspective of medicine, it’s difficult to imagine the devastation caused by diseases in the early twentieth century. The origins of the MRC are rooted in the need to overcome tuberculosis – then one of the UK’s most urgent health problems.
Since that time, the MRC has gone on to improve (and sometimes transform) human health, not just in the UK, but worldwide. The organisation now supports nearly 6,000 research staff either directly, or through grants and fellowships.
At CitySprint Healthcare we’re proud to play our small part in helping the MRC carry out its research. For example, we are currently transporting samples on a Leukemia Trial at Guys Hospital, which is funded by the MRC. This is one of many examples of work we are doing for MRC funded projects, which just shows how they are helping our health system to fight diseases.
Our specially trained and accredited logistics teams use a secure GPS track and trace system to ensure clinical trial logistics are delivered to the same high standards as those in the laboratories. Every sample can be planned, tracked and checked against an electronic audit system to ensure it meets the highest level of scrutiny demanded by the global scientific community.
It’s difficult to predict the health problems the MRC will be overcoming in the next 100 years. But at CitySprint Healthcare, we look forward to doing our bit behind the scenes supporting an organisation which represents the very best of British medical science.
Happy Birthday MRC!
