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Building responsible neurotechnology research capability

Apply for funding to develop a research network for neurotechnology.

You must be:

  • based in the UK
  • eligible for EPSRC funding.

Your network is expected to:

  • help form new interdisciplinary research communities
  • promote responsible research and address ethical issues in neurotechnology
  • set a research agenda and fund small feasibility studies.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£6,000,000
Publication date:
26 August 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Ageing across the life course interdisciplinary research network

Apply for funding to develop a new interdisciplinary network. The network is expected to address a challenge related to ageing across the life course, from pre-conception to old age.

You must be:

  • eligible for UKRI funding
  • at lecturer level, or above, at a UK research organisation.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Award range:
£100,000 - £200,000
Publication date:
6 September 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Artificial intelligence for better biomedical and health research

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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000
Maximum award:
£200,000
Publication date:
10 September 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Advancing adolescent mental health and wellbeing research

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.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Award range:
£125,000 - £1,250,000
Publication date:
22 September 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Better methods, better research: Nov 2021

Researchers can apply for funding to improve the methods being used in wider biomedical and health research. The programme is jointly funded by MRC and the National Institute for Health Research, and the programme welcomes research that falls within the remit of either funder.

We will normally award up to £500,000 and support 80% of the full economic costs of your proposal.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
20 September 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

Build a network to promote academic engagement with Catapults

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.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,350,000
Maximum award:
£2,350,000
Publication date:
11 October 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Infections and immunity partnership: Jan 2022

Apply for a grant to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in Infections and immunity.

You must:

  • be a UK-based researcher based at an eligible research organisation
  • have at least a postgraduate degree.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
18 August 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Enhance living and post-mortem human nervous tissue resources

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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Publication date:
26 October 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Clinician scientist fellowship: Jan 2022

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.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
8 September 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging

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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,500,000
Maximum award:
£225,000
Publication date:
2 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

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