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Over 20 years of Progress

£15.6 million of research funding

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Meningitis Research Foundation is a registered charity that fights death and disability from meningitis and associated infections by funding vital scientific research.We currently fund 19 research projects. Since we were founded in 1989, we have awarded 136 research grants, leading to many advances in the prevention, detection and treatment of meningitis and septicaemia. The total value of our investment in vital scientific research is over £16.5 million (€19 million).

Our Programme

Defeating meningitis and septicaemia through research.

Research achievements

The difference we're making

Current projects

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Determining the current causes of childhood meningitis
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Completed projects

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Despite encouraging progress in the development of glycoconjugate vaccines against serogroup A and C meningococci, the development of an effective...
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Applying for grants

We fund global research into the prevention, detection and treatment of meningitis and septicaemia. Our research budget is fully committed for the present and we will not be holding a research grants round in 2011-12.