Action Medical Research

ABOUT ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH We are the leading UK-wide charity dedicated to funding vital research to help sick and disabled babies, children and young people FUNDING MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS Action Medical Research has been funding medical breakthroughs for over 70 years. We have helped to beat polio, fight meningitis, prevent stillbirths and develop ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, helping to save thousands of children’s lives and change many more. Today, our children’s charity continues to tackle the challenges disease and disability present by funding high quality research across the UK to save and change children’s lives. Our Research into children’s health Surprisingly, medical research tackling childhood diseases is poorly funded in the UK. Action Medical Research has a critical job to do in helping fill this gap to protect children. The prospects for finding new cures and treatments is almost within our grasp. Right now we are funding vital research projects with many more ready to go – but we simply can’t fund them all. With your help, we’re determined to change this and make a real difference to children's lives. Our History The charity was founded in 1952 by Duncan Guthrie in his quest to find a cure for polio, a condition that affected the lives of many thousands of children including his own daughter, Janet. Early research funded by the charity helped to develop the first oral polio vaccine which eradicated new cases of the disease in the UK. This accomplishment is a testament to the power of medical research. Since then we’ve continued to fund vital research projects to save and change lives of sick and disabled babies and children through medical research.