Funding calls
This page is being updated with current funding calls that may be of interest. Click on the links to take you through to the funders website for more information.
The Waterloo Foundation Child Development Fund – Project Grants
The Waterloo Foundation like to keep research calls as open as possible, but they also have specific funding priorities. For more information: http://www.waterloofoundation.org.uk/ChildDevelopmentResearchDeadlines.html
22/2 HTA Researcher-led call Evidence Synthesis
The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme funds research about the clinical and cost-effectiveness, and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests, for those who plan, provide or receive care from NHS, and social care services.
HTA Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their researcher-led workstream. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/222-hta-researcher-led-call-evidence-synthesis/29575
22/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme funds research about the clinical and cost-effectiveness, and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests, for those who plan, provide or receive care from NHS, and social care services.
HTA Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their researcher-led workstream. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/221-hta-researcher-led-call-primary-research/29579
21/598 Health and social care outcomes and cost-effectiveness of assistive technologies
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21598-health-and-social-care-outcomes-and-cost-effectiveness-of-assistive-technologies/29366
21/584 Point of care Doppler ultrasound prior to emergency scrotal exploration
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21584-point-of-care-doppler-ultrasound-prior-to-emergency-scrotal-exploration/29276
21/585 Early endovascular repair in type b uncomplicated sub-acute aortic dissection
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21585-early-endovascular-repair-in-type-b-uncomplicated-sub-acute-aortic-dissection/29277
21/586 Management of Perthes’ disease in children
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21586-management-of-perthes-disease-in-children/29278
21/588 Timing of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis in traumatic brain injury
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21588-timing-of-pharmacological-thromboprophylaxis-in-traumatic-brain-injury/29281
21/589 Coenzyme Q10 in chronic heart failure
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21589-coenzyme-q10-in-chronic-heart-failure/29282
21/593 Pain management for children and young people (0-19 years)
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21593-pain-management-for-children-and-young-people-0-19-years/29286
21/578 Antidepressants for post-stroke emotionalism
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21578-antidepressants-for-post-stroke-emotionalism/29270
21/591 Surgical treatment of proximal ACL ruptures with ACL repair or ACL reconstruction
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21591-surgical-treatment-of-proximal-acl-ruptures-with-acl-repair-or-acl-reconstruction/29284
21/580 Maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21580-maintenance-treatment-for-bipolar-disorder/29272
Patient Safety Research Collaborations
The NIHR has launched a new, open competition to designate and fund NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) in England.
NIHR PSRCs will undertake high quality translational, applied and health services research on patient safety that addresses strategic patient safety challenges within the health and care system. The aim of the new scheme is to develop, validate and test innovations, approaches and interventions that have the potential to lead to improvements in patient safety and the safety of health and care services. This NIHR PSRC competition represents an evolution from the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centres (PSTRCs) scheme which was established in 2012. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/patient-safety-research-collaborations/29173
21/590 Thromboprophylaxis following endovenous treatment for people with varicose veins
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21590-thromboprophylaxis-following-endovenous-treatment-for-people-with-varicose-veins/29283
21/582 Point of care ultrasound for breech presentation at term
The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/21582-point-of-care-ultrasound-for-breech-presentation-at-term/29274
Research for Patient Benefit – Competition 47
The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme is inviting stage 1 applications for research proposals that are concerned with the day-to-day practice of health service staff, and that have the potential to have an impact on the health or wellbeing of patients and users of the NHS.
The programme aims to fund high quality quantitative and qualitative research with a clear trajectory to patient benefit. It particularly encourages applications that have a strong element of interaction with patients and the public and that have been conceived in association with a relevant group of service users. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/research-for-patient-benefit-competition-47/29217
Patient Safety Research Collaborations
The NIHR has launched a new, open competition to designate and fund NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) in England.
NIHR PSRCs will undertake high quality translational, applied and health services research on patient safety that addresses strategic patient safety challenges within the health and care system. The aim of the new scheme is to develop, validate and test innovations, approaches and interventions that have the potential to lead to improvements in patient safety and the safety of health and care services. This NIHR PSRC competition represents an evolution from the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centres (PSTRCs) scheme which was established in 2012. For more information: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/patient-safety-research-collaborations/29173
Healthcare technologies investigator-led grant
Healthcare technologies investigator-led research grants are for researchers at UK higher education institutions, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations and NHS bodies.
Collaboration with relevant healthcare professionals, other researchers, industry, the public sector and other relevant partners is strongly encouraged.
UKRI is looking for researchers in engineering, physical sciences, information and communications technologies (ICT) and mathematical sciences who want to apply their expertise to healthcare challenges.
Projects can range in size from small short-term grants to multi-million-pound research programmes lasting several years. There is no limit on the size of the grant or length of the project. For more information: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/healthcare-technologies-investigator-led-grant/
Cancer Research UK – Current funding awards
For the list of all current Cancer Research UK funding awards: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/our-funding-schemes
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust: Sir Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research
Over the past 20 years the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust has supported world-leading translational research projects through the Sir Jules Thorn Award. The Award provides a grant of up to £1.7 million to support a five-year programme of translational biomedical research selected following a competition among applicants sponsored by the UK’s leading medical schools and NHS organisations. UK medical schools and NHS organisations are normally able to submit one application annually, selected following an internal competition. For more information visit: https://julesthorntrust.org.uk/programmes/medical-research/the-sir-jules-thorn-award-for-biomedical-research/
Healthcare Technologies: Call for Investigator-led Research Projects
Healthcare technologies investigator-led research grants are for researchers at UK higher education institutions, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations and NHS bodies.
This funding call is looking for researchers in engineering, physical sciences, information and communications technologies (ICT) and mathematical sciences who want to apply their expertise to healthcare challenges. For more information: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/healthcare-technologies-investigator-led-grant/
British Heart Foundation New Horizons Grants
New Horizons Grants encourage scientists from outside traditional cardiovascular biology to engage in cardiovascular research and bring novel expertise to the field to develop new technologies, models or methodologies and explore novel concepts.
Examples of such collaborations includes cooperatives between biologists and engineers, physicists, mathematicians etc. For more information: https://www.bhf.org.uk/for-professionals/information-for-researchers/what-we-fund/new-horizon-grants