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 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. Since then we’ve continued to fund vital research projects to save and change lives through medical research.