Selected funding opportunities

Themed call: Prevention revolution: early action to prevent poor health outcomes
NIHR is announcing a targeted prevention funding opportunity, which is part of a coordinated response by NIHR to the DHSC areas of research interest 1 (ARI1): early action to prevent poor health outcomes.

NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) FAST programme
The NIHR i4i FAST programme, in partnership with the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre Network, invites applications to support the development of technology-assisted workforce solutions that prevent the progression of a chronic condition to multi-morbidity in community, home and care settings.

Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme
UK NHS organisations can apply for a share of up to £85 million for Obesity Pathway Innovations. Funding for this competition is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (£50 million) and Eli Lilly and Company Limited (£35 million).

Modelling the effects of public policy on e-cigarette use
The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to fund research to explore what modelling can tell us about the impact of current and potential public policies on e-cigarette use. 

Wellcome Mental Health Award: Transforming early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people
Funding for projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness and assess implementation strategies of scalable transformative early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.

Turing AI Pioneer Interdisciplinary Fellowships
This opportunity is for established researchers from across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit, without a background in core artificial intelligence (AI) research, who want to build domain relevant AI capability and develop advanced AI approaches to tackle a specific research challenge in their chosen field.

Smart Data Research UK Fellowships
Apply for a fellowship to undertake innovative, impact-focused research using smart data. Projects should address a significant real-world challenge which is relevant to the UK.

The impact of local climate change adaptation on health and health inequalities
The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to commission a single consortium to conduct a series of research projects for up to 5 years, to address linked questions around climate change adaptation and health.

LifeArc Philanthropic Fund

The LifeArc Philanthropic Fund is a multi-million pound grant fund to support translational medical research projects to develop treatments and diagnostics for rare diseases. Projects should be underpinned with a strong, scientific rationale in addressing a rare disease medical need and must be target driven, with a credible delivery plan and led by an academic.

If you have a project focused on research into therapeutics, diagnostics or devices that could support people living with a rare disease, please get in touch by completing this form.
Further details can be found here. 

Ongoing

EPSRC

Standard research grants (EPSRC)
Standard research is for unsolicited research proposals submitted by anyone eligible to apply to EPSRC for funding. They can be submitted at any time and in any field of research relevant to EPSRC’s remit. 

We encourage research collaborations with business and the public sector, particularly where they can help research advances and the take up of results.

Ongoing

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

NERC urgency funding

Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient and unexpected scientific opportunities. You can only apply for urgency funding if there is an unexpected event you need urgent data on. These may be events affecting the environment created by the occurrence of sporadic natural events such as: earthquakes, droughts, floods, ephemeral events in ecosystems. The aim of this grant is to help you collect valuable data at the start of the event before other events and actions affect the data collection.

Ongoing

• establish new, high-value collaborative activities or capabilities
• add value to high-quality scientific programmes that are already supported by grants from MRC and other funders

MRC Career Development Award
Apply for support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field. Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health. You must:

• have a PhD or equivalent
• show evidence of career progression
• show clear plans for developing as a leader in your area of research