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Experimental medicine stage one

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.

Your application must include an intervention in humans.

You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.

UKRI metascience scientometrics for research assessment (invite only)

Apply for funding to develop, validate, and critique novel scientometric indicators for use in research assessment and in metascience research.

You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity.

We expect to fund up to £3 million at 80% full economic cost (FEC).


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Medical Research Council (MRC)
Polaris House,
North Star Avenue,
Swindon,
SN2 1FL

Events

MRC ES seminar: embedding sustainability into research

6 July 2026

Online and at University of Oxford, The Life and Mind building (lecture theatre 1), South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3EL

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