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Experimental medicine

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 research organisation. Any researcher employed by an eligible research organisation, including MRC institutes and units (including those in Gambia and Uganda), can apply for this funding opportunity.

You can apply if you hold a fellowship or lectureship.

This is an ongoing scheme. Application rounds open every six months, closing in April and October.

 

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
5 November 2021
Opening date:
11 July 2022
Closing date:

UKRI-Defra One Health approach to vector borne diseases

Apply for funding to forecast, understand, mitigate and avoid vector (arthropod) borne disease (VBD) threats to the UK.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£6,500,000
Publication date:
8 July 2022
Opening date:
25 July 2022
Closing date:

Establish an integrated UK Rare Disease Research Platform: nodes

Apply for funding to coordinate and address tractable challenges in rare diseases and achieve a step change in the mechanistic understanding, diagnosis and therapy of rare diseases.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£12,000,000
Award range:
£800,000 - £1,250,000
Publication date:
9 August 2022
Opening date:
19 August 2022
Closing date:

Better methods, better research

Apply for funding to improve the methods used by others in biomedical and health research.

You must:

  • focus your application on an area within MRC’s or NIHR’s science remit
  • be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding (this includes MRC units and centres)
  • have at least a postgraduate degree.
Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
16 February 2022
Opening date:
30 September 2022
Closing date:

Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration: pathfinder five

Apply for funding to deliver new and unconventional approaches and creative solutions to the challenges of neurodegeneration research.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Italian Ministry of Health (MoH)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,900,000
Publication date:
26 July 2022
Opening date:
12 September 2022 06:00 UK time
Closing date:

UK-US research: ecology and evolution of infectious diseases 2022

Apply to research the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Your team must be interdisciplinary.

You must collaborate with a US partner. You can also collaborate with partners from China or Israel.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Publication date:
3 August 2022
Opening date:
3 August 2022
Closing date:

Clinical academic research partnerships

Apply for funding to develop your research interests through a collaborative partnership.

You must be a research-qualified healthcare professional at consultant level or equivalent. You must not be currently undertaking any substantial research activity.

You must have a research partner based at an eligible research organisation.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Publication date:
25 February 2022
Opening date:
26 August 2022
Closing date:

Developmental pathway funding scheme

Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions.

You must:

  • be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding
  • meet individual eligibility requirements.
Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£30,000,000
Publication date:
23 March 2022
Opening date:
14 October 2022
Closing date:

Applied global health research

Apply for funding to support research that will address global health challenges and inequities.

We will accept proposals of all sizes, including large research projects and small to medium-scale applications.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
9 March 2022
Opening date:
1 November 2022 09:00 UK time
Closing date:

Develop guidance for better research methods

Apply for funding to develop new guidance on biomedical and health research methods.

The guidance should aim to:

  • improve the understanding and use of better methods related to the remit of MRC or NIHR
  • be accessible to those without specialist methodology knowledge.

You must have a postgraduate degree and be based at an eligible research organisation.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£120,000
Maximum award:
£60,000
Publication date:
9 March 2022
Opening date:
5 May 2023
Closing date:

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