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 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 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 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 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 establish a national human nervous tissue sample resource.
This will be a pilot to enable researchers to access living and post-mortem nervous tissue.
The resource should support neuroscience and mental health research.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Closed
Grant
£5,000,000
26 October 2021
26 October 2021
2 December 2021 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to build a network that will:
encourage engagement between academia and the Catapult centres
deliver the Researchers in Residence awards.
You must:
be a UK resident
be based at an eligible research organisation
have experience of running large centres or networks.
Closed
Grant
£2,350,000
£2,350,000
11 October 2021
13 October 2021 9:00am UK time
14 December 2021 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’ through:
methodological innovation
capability building.
You can be researcher at any career stage who is:
within the remit of AHRC, ESRC or MRC
based in the UK
from a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Closed
Grant
£8,000,000
£125,000 - £1,250,000
22 September 2021
22 September 2021
1 December 2021 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to use artificial intelligence (AI) for biomedical and health research.
To lead a proposal, you must be from a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Closed
Grant
£1,000,000
£200,000
10 September 2021
10 September 2021 9:00am UK time
20 October 2021 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to support your move to independent investigator. Your research can focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health.
You must be a registered healthcare professional with a PhD.
You must be able to show:
evidence of career progression
clear plans to develop leadership in your own specialist area of research.
Closed
Fellowship
8 September 2021
1 November 2021
12 January 2022 4:00pm UK time