MDP may refer to:

Medicine and psychology

  • MDP syndrome, a rare genetic disorder
  • Manic depressive psychosis, also known as bipolar disorder
  • Mesolimbic dopamine pathway of the brain
  • Methylene diphosphonate, a pharmaceutical product used especially in nuclear medicine (<sup>99m</sup>Tc-MDP)
  • Muramyl dipeptide, a component of bacterial cell walls with inflammatory properties
  • 10-Methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate, an adhesive monomer for dental adhesive materials
  • A brand name for the medication medronic acid
  • Monocyte Dendritic-cell Progenitors, a type of progenitor cell

Organizations

  • Madison Dearborn Partners, an American private equity firm
  • Malaysian Democratic Party, a Malaysian political party
  • Maldivian Democratic Party, a Maldivian political party
  • Maendeleo Democratic Party, a Kenyan political party
  • Maryland Department of Planning, a state agency of Maryland
  • Michigan Democratic Party, an American political party
  • Microbicides Development Programme, a British organization that studies microbicides
  • Ministry of Defence Police, a British civilian police force
  • Modernising Defence Programme, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence's strategic initiative in 2018
  • Montana Democratic Party, an American political party
  • Movement for Democracy and Progress (Comoros), a politic party in the Comoros
  • Movement for Democracy and Progress (Republic of the Congo), a political party in the Republic of the Congo
  • Democratic Party (South Korea, 2000), formerly known as the Millennium Democratic Party
  • Hungarian Working People's Party (), the ruling communist party in Hungary between 1949 and 1956
  • Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), an American media conglomerate
  • Nationalist Democracy Party (), a Turkish political party
  • Portuguese Democratic Movement ()
  • Article 1 – Democratic and Progressive Movement (Italian: Articolo 1 – Movimento Democratico e Progressista), an Italian political party

Science and engineering

  • Minimum Desirable Product, a product with enough features to be desirable for most customers (a stage that follows the Minimum Viable Product)
  • Markov decision process, a probabilistic model that is widely used in artificial intelligence
  • Mask data preparation, a process in electronic design automation
  • Media Dispatch Protocol, a file transfer protocol
  • Membrane dipeptidase, an enzyme
  • Mini DisplayPort, a digital display interface

Other uses

  • Management Development Programme, a middle-management form of MBA
  • Mbala language (ISO 639 code: mdp), a Bantu language
  • Medibang Paint, abbreviation and filetype (.mdp) of a graphics editor.