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Facility access funding for bioscience partnerships (invite only)

Apply for this invitation-only funding opportunity to support business and academic partnerships in accessing STFC skills, capabilities and facilities to find solutions to industrially relevant bioscience challenges.

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

Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one

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

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

Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: January 2026

Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research.

You must be:

  • based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding
  • in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements

Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) 2026

Apply for funding to develop a large or complex scientific project. You must have already discussed your ideas with one of our programme managers and have been invited to submit a full proposal.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

BBSRC Brazil pump-priming award (FAPPA)

This award is for BBSRC-funded research groups to pump-prime interactions with FAPESP scientists in Brazil. Applications must be made by a project lead who is currently in receipt of BBSRC research funding.

Gap fund for early-stage development of new healthcare interventions

Apply to the Developmental Pathway Gap Fund to address a single-step evidence gap and de-risk the development of a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic test or other medical intervention.

To apply you must be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Pre-announcement: Biological influence on ocean carbon: novel modelling approaches

Apply for funding for a project to improve representation of biological processes in carbon storage models. It must be led by a UK researcher and can have US team members that are NASA supported.

The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Gambling harms research and innovation partnerships

Apply for funding to develop Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIPs).

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

 

UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC)

Apply for funding for UKRI’s Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC).

This investment will coordinate and facilitate UKRI’s Gambling Research Programme (RPG) and catalyse interest in gambling harms research.

Pre-announcement: multiple model assessment of biological influence on ocean carbon

Apply for funding for a project comparing and improving biological carbon storage in multiple global models. It must be led by a UK researcher and can have US team members that are NASA supported.

The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

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