Apply for funding to deliver doctoral training in areas within the Medical Research Council (MRC)’s core remit and priorities. This funding opportunity will support the development of a highly skilled workforce equipped to address medical research and innovation challenges across a range of careers.
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Search and filter this listApply to the MRC Gap Fund to address a single, high-risk development step and generate key data to de-risk a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic or other medical product.
Applicants must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Apply for up to 150,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.
You must be a UK researcher from academia, industry or other organisations.
Apply for funding to undertake a PhD.
Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health.
You must:
- be a registered healthcare professional
- be at an appropriate point in your training to undertake a PhD
- show plans to pursue a research career
Apply for funding to reacquire research skills.
Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health.
You must:
- be a registered healthcare professional
- be a PhD graduate working outside of research, usually five or more years ago
- show plans to pursue a research career
Apply for support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field.
Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council’s (MRC) remit to improve human health.
You must:
- be a registered healthcare professional
- have a PhD or equivalent
- show evidence of career development
Multi-institutional partnerships in regions across the UK can apply for regional accounts for clinical researchers (RACR). These provide flexible funding to local clinical researchers at key career pinch points for research on mechanistic understanding of human health and disease.
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 MRC funding. Researchers transitioning to independence may be eligible to apply as a ‘new investigator’.
Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots.
There are two funding opportunities per year that are open to all targets.
This funding opportunity will have a highlight on new targets related to mental health or dementia (including Parkinson’s and Huntington’s).