Apply for funding to develop early-stage technologies in sensing and imaging.
You must be based at an eligible UK organisation. You must collaborate with organisations from other disciplines.
Your project must have two co-principal investigators. They must be from different research areas.
Closed
Grant
£2,500,000
£225,000
2 November 2021
1 November 2021
3 March 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics.
We expect to fund one consortium. We will fund:
small or medium-sized enterprises
academic organisations
public sector organisations.
The principal investigator must be UK based.
Closed
Grant
£6,000,000
£6,000,000
8 November 2021
8 November 2021
6 January 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding for the early-stage development of an intervention that seeks to address a UK or global public health challenge.
Any researcher employed by an eligible research organisation, including MRC Institutes and Units (including those in Gambia and Uganda), can apply for this opportunity.
Closed
Grant
£150,000
29 November 2021
29 November 2021 9:00am UK time
25 January 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for a fellowship to explore your own research ideas and develop links with industry, including secondments, training and mentorship.
Your research project should support the development of cell and oligonucleotide therapies.
You must have a PhD, or equivalent higher research degree, by the start of the fellowship.
This opportunity is open to both clinical and non-clinical researchers.
Closed
AstraZeneca
Fellowship
£4,000,000
£500,000
1 December 2021
1 December 2021
8 March 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to research environmental sustainability in life science and medical practice.
Your application should:
show how you will support net zero carbon aspirations
seek to improve MRC’s understanding or provide practical solutions.
Closed
Grant
£1,000,000
£100,000
15 December 2021
3 January 2022
1 March 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to develop or improve drugs or plant protection agents to help:
treat bacterial or fungal infections
reduce the spread of resistance to drugs.
You should:
be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding
apply as part of a consortium of transnational partners.
Your project should involve either:
licensed antibiotics or antifungals
interventions in pre-clinical or early clinical development.
Closed
Funders from 17 Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) member countries
Grant
£1,500,000
£250,000
18 November 2021
11 January 2022 11:00am UK time
8 March 2022 11:00am UK time
Apply for funding to develop new and existing partnerships with researchers in Switzerland.
You must:
be currently in receipt of an active UKRI grant to submit an application for the materials, synthetic biology, or life and physical sciences interface themes
have been a UKRI grant holder (within the last five years of the call closing date) to submit an application for the languages theme.
Closed
Part of a collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Grant
£1,000,000
£25,000
14 January 2022
14 January 2022 9:00am UK time
8 March 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for global health funding to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases through implementation research.
You must:
be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding
work in partnership with co-investigators based in low or middle income countries (LMICs) where the work will take place.
Your research must:
take a life course approach
focus on people aged 10 to 24 in LMICs.
Up to £5,000,000 is available (subject to quality). We expect to fund several projects.
Closed
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)
Grant
£5,000,000
17 January 2022
17 January 2022
31 May 2022 11:59pm UK time
Apply for funding to undertake a 12-week research placement in Canada.
You must be a doctoral student funded by a UKRI research council and working in any field.
Funding can be used for:
fees and stipends
research costs
travel and subsistence costs.
You may request up to £15,000 for each placement.
Closed
Mitacs
Grant
1 February 2022
1 February 2022
26 April 2022 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to research the direct relationship between nutrition, immune function and infectious diseases relating to metabolic disorders.
You must:
be a UK-based researcher as part of a transnational consortium of three to six partners
ensure the UK part of the project is within MRC’s remit.
Closed
10 international funders through the Joint Programming Initiative on a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL)
Grant
£877,193
£220,000 - £263,000
4 March 2022
15 February 2022
21 April 2022 3:00pm UK time
