Hereditary Diseases: Research
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much money has been allocated through the the UK Research and Innovation fund to research into mitochondrial diseases in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kanishka Narayan
The Medical Research Council (MRC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), committed £55,650,000 since 2020 to research into mitochondrial disease.
2020 | £9,283,000 |
2021 | £11,063,000 |
2022 | £13,416,000 |
2023 | £9,738,000 |
2024 | £12,150,000 |
Additionally, MRC awarded the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MBU), which focuses entirely on mitochondrial disease, £39,489,000 over this period.
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