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BBSRC new investigator award: 2025 round 3: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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

International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences

Apply for funding to visit international partners, in order to initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities or attend European consortia-building events. Stays may be of up to one month in duration.

You must be an existing BBSRC-supported researcher in order to apply for funding.

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 MRC funding. Researchers transitioning to independence may be eligible to apply as a ‘new investigator’.

PATT travel grants for competitively awarded observation time 2025

You can apply for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community.

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

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10, business and non-academic

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders.

Pre-announcement: DARE UK Real-world Research Exemplar Programme

Apply for funding as a research exemplar to evaluate and influence new capabilities of trusted research environments.

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

Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities

Apply for a collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities. These awards enable UK non-higher education institutions (non-HEI), individual or consortia, to support high-quality doctoral training.

Pre-announcement: Opening up the Environment 2026

Apply for funding to deliver purposeful activities to increase the diversity of the UK environmental science community.

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful Opening up the Environment 2025 application.

Researching ME/CFS: priority area

Apply for funding to research myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME/CFS.

BBSRC Brazil pump-priming award

You can apply for up to £35,000 over two years to pump-prime collaborations between scientists in the UK and São Paolo state in Brazil. The awards support the development of future applications within our remit under the UK Research and Innovation-São Paulo Research Foundation lead agency agreement.

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