Funding
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External funding
UKRI and NIHR
- MRC South Africa-UK health research collaboration: non-communicable diseases (max £600k, deadline 12 April).
- MRC South Africa-UK health research collaboration: multimorbidity of infectious diseases and NCDs (max £600k, deadline 15 April).
- MRC UK Japan Engineering Biology for Novel Therapies and Diagnostics Research Collaboration (deadline 16 April).
- MRC South Africa-UK health research collaboration: climate and health, one health and zoonosis (max £600k, deadline 4pm 17 April).
- MRC Career Development Award to become an independent researcher (deadline 17 April).
- MRC Experimental medicine stage one (usually £1mil+, deadline 17 April).
- NIHR 23/174 Optimising treatment duration with immunomodulators to reduce overtreatment (EME Programme) (deadline 23 April).
- NIHR 23/145 Climate change and health (deadline 23 April).
- MRC African Research Leaders for exceptional early to mid-career African researchers to conduct excellent global health research across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (max £750k, deadline 24 April).
- BBSRC Standard research grant: 2024 round 2: responsive mode (max £2mil, deadline 24 April).
- BBSRC New investigator award: 2024 round 2: responsive mode (max £2mil, deadline 24 April).
- 2024 BBSRC Fellowships scheme for early career researchers wishing to carry out independent research within a host laboratory (deadline 2 May).
- MRC Cancer Immunotherapy Response Research Platform (max £9mil, deadline 9 May).
- MRC Infections and Immunity responsive mode, deadline 15 May: Programme grant; Research grant; New investigator.
- NIHR 23/167 Optimising treatment duration with immunomodulators to reduce overtreatment (HTA Programme) (deadline 15 May).
- MRC Neurosciences and mental health responsive mode, deadline 15 May: Programme grant; Research grant; New investigator.
- MRC Molecular and cellular medicine responsive mode, deadline 15 May: Programme grant; Research grant; New investigator.
- MRC/GACD/NIHR Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (deadline 15 May).
- MRC UKRI-Southeast Asia collaboration on infectious diseases (max £1mil, deadline 30 May).
- Open-ended calls on the MRC website for collaborations with Luxembourg, Norway, and Brazil.
Industry
See Funding Opportunities — University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division
Charity and other non-commercial
- VALIDATE Fellowships for vaccine R&D focused on mycobacteria, leishmania, and burkholderia pseudomallei (max £150k, deadline 8 April).
- Royal Society Industry Fellowships (secondment salary + £4k per year research expenses, deadline 10 April).
- Wellcome Career Development Awards for mid-career researchers with potential to be international research leaders (deadline 11 April).
- Royal Society Policy Associate Scheme: secondments to gain first-hand experience of working in science policy and using science and evidence to inform policy advice and decision making (deadline 11 April).
- Wellcome Discovery Awards for bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing (average award £3.5mil, deadline 16 April).
- Royal Society ISPF International Collaboration Awards for emerging research leaders in the UK to develop research collaborations with international partners (£225k, deadline 25 April).
- Wellcome Bioimaging Technology Development Awards (max £500k, deadline 30 April).
- BSI Travel Grants (max £1k, deadline 1 May).
- JDRF’s Strategic Research Agreements provide research funding for investigators to address critical gaps and challenges and make breakthroughs in type 1 diabetes research (LOI deadline 2 May).
- EFIS and the European Journal of Immunology (EJI) financial support for immunology-themed meetings, workshops and schools that are organized in Europe and are international in nature. Awards made to meeting organizers to fund ECR participation. (deadline 3 May).
- Royal Society Research Professorships (max £1.4mil, deadline 8 May).
- Michelson Prizes for ECR applications related to Human Immunology and Vaccine Research ($150k. deadline 9 June).
- CRUK Cancer Immunology Project Awards (max £300k, deadline 15 May).
- Wellcome Early-Career Awards (max £400k plus salary, deadline 21 May).
- BSI Communication and Engagement Grant (max £1k, deadline 1 June).
- EJI Ita Askonas Prize awarded by EFIS for female group leaders in immunology who have run an independent laboratory for a minimum of four and no more than ten years. Nomination has to be endorsed by EFIS member society, e.g. BSI (€20k, deadline 1 June).
- Wellcome Accelerator Awards for early/mid-career researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK (salary plus £200k project expenses, deadline 18 June).
- CRUK Biology to Prevention Award (max £600k, deadline 20 June).
- CRUK Early Detection and Diagnosis Project Award (max £500k, deadline 20 June).
- AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology recognizes an active scientist whose outstanding and innovative research has had a major impact on the cancer field and has the potential to stimulate new directions in cancer immunology. (self nomination prohibited, deadline 15 Sep).
- Royal Society APEX awards supporting excellence in cross-disciplinary research (max £110k, deadline 13 Nov).
- CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship for qualified young scientists who wish to receive training in fundamental immunology or cancer immunology, and Immuno-Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship for those who wish to receive dual training in immunology and data science (max $240k, deadlines 1 March and 1 Sep each year).
Internal funding and Coordinated Bids:
- Medical Sciences Division internal funding
- University of Oxford internal funding
- Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) Springboard Award: to launch the research careers of biomedical researchers at the start of their first independent post (£125k, deadline 16 April).
- John Fell Fund: seedcorn and start-up grants, and staff and funds to stimulate applications to external agencies (deadline 1 May).
- Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump priming (max £12k, deadline 15 May).
- AfOx Catalyst Grants: seed funding (Travel Grants and Starter Grants) for development of collaborative research between researchers based in African research institutions and at Oxford (deadline 17 May).
- University Challenge Seed Fund (UCSF): a translational fund focused on projects that can make a near term impact and have the potential for future commercialisation (max £250k, quarterly deadlines).