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Improve and accelerate the impact of your organisation’s research

Apply for impact acceleration account (IAA) funding to help your organisation’s research have an impact.

Your organisation must be eligible for funding from one of these councils:

  • AHRC
  • BBSRC
  • EPSRC
  • STFC
  • MRC.

To be eligible to apply for EPSRC funding, your organisation must have been invited.

Experimental medicine grants: Sep 2021

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your proposal must include an experimental intervention or challenge in humans.

You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. In addition to our usual eligibility criteria, you can apply if you hold a fellowship or lectureship.

This is an ongoing scheme with rounds open every six months.

Public health intervention development (PHIND): Sep 2021

Apply for funding to develop an intervention addressing a UK or global public health issue.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding. This includes MRC units and centres.

UK and South Korea biomedical and health researcher exchange

Apply for funding to support the movement of biomedical and health researchers between the UK and South Korea. Funding comes from the UK-Korea Researcher Mobility Scheme.

You must be applying on behalf of an existing research partnership between the two countries.

UK applicants must have an active UKRI grant, awarded through a competitive process.

Korean applicants must be eligible for funding from NRF or MSIT.

MRC clinical research training fellowship: Sep 2021

You can get funding for a research project across any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health. You can apply for:

  • predoctoral fellowships – if you are a clinician wanting to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree
  • postdoctoral fellowships – if you were awarded a PhD some time ago but have not been active in research since, we can help you to reacquire research skills.

We expect you to be undertaking your specialty training. You can apply for a fellowship lasting between two and four years but they usually last for three. Funding will cover your salary and related expenses.

MRC clinician scientist fellowship: Sep 2021

This award can help you become an independent investigator through a programme of research and training lasting up to five years. We will provide your salary plus some support costs.

To apply, you must have:

  • research plans within MRC’s remit which do not overlap with those of your current group leader or proposed sponsor
  • a track record of challenging, original and productive research across past appointments, and an upward trajectory
  • identified opportunities for developing and progressing in your career

You must have a higher research degree in medicine or another clinical area.

Engineering biology research, community and capacity development

Apply for funding for research, community and capacity development in engineering biology. This funding comes from Engineering Biology Transition Awards.

Your project must align with the themes of the proposed National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP).

You must be of lecturer level or above and based at an eligible research organisation.

MRC career development award: Sep 2021

This award can help you become an independent investigator through a programme of research and training lasting up to five years.

We will provide your salary plus support for research staff, consumables, travel costs and appropriate capital equipment.

To apply, you must have:

  • research plans within MRC’s remit which do not overlap with those of your current group leader or proposed sponsor
  • a track record of challenging, original and productive research across past appointments, and an upward trajectory
  • identified opportunities for developing and progressing in your career.

MRC senior non-clinical fellowships: Sep 2021

If you are a researcher with a track record of leading your own independent research, we can help you become an internationally-recognised leader in your field. We will contribute to your salary and project costs with no limit on the amount you can apply for.

Scale up health inequality prevention and intervention strategies

Apply for funding to carry out a pilot study for the Mobilising Cultural and Natural Assets to Combat Health Inequalities programme.

You must be:

  • a UK resident
  • hosted by a research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.

The study should focus on how to scale up small, local approaches for addressing health inequalities.

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