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Experimental medicine stage one

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.

Your application must include an intervention in humans.

You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.

Contracts for Innovation: Cyber scale in critical sectors

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.5 million inclusive of VAT, to develop, demonstrate and commercialise their cybersecurity solution in real end user environments within critical sector organisations.

Video games and gambling-related harms

Apply for funding to improve understanding of the relationship between gambling and video games and produce insights to inform policy and regulation, support interventions, and promote safe and responsible video games.

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

Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation: CRD

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.

Growth cohorts: next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses.

These businesses will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector-specific support, to develop and deliver innovation and growth plans.

2026 to 2027 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) outlines

Apply for funding to undertake large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research projects.

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

Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.

Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

A notification of intent must be completed by 27 May 2026 4:00pm UK time.

Frontier artificial intelligence discovery

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence and foundation models.

Zero emission vessels and infrastructure two: alternative fuels

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

MRC: new investigator research grant: applicant-led

Apply for funding to take the next step towards becoming an independent researcher.

Your research must be in the remit of the Medical Research Council.

You must have:

  • the skills and experience to ‘transition to independence’
  • the support of an eligible host research organisation

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