Funding
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External funding
UKRI and NIHR
- MRC Funding for early stage development of new healthcare interventions (max £300k, deadline 13 March).
- UKRI/Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance: antimicrobial resistance (AMR) interventions international consortium funding (max £350k, deadline 14 March).
- MRC Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) (max £150k, deadline 19 March).
- MRC Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions (deadline 20 March).
- MRC partnership: responsive mode (deadline 15 May). NB: You must contact MRC before you apply to check if your application is suitable. You must do this by 28 March 2024.
- MRC Senior clinical fellowship (deadline 3 April).
- MRC Postdoctoral clinical research training fellowship (deadline 3 April).
- MRC Clinician scientist fellowship (deadline 3 April).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
- AACR Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award to encourage and support tenure-eligible [or equivalent] junior faculty. The research proposed for funding must focus on cancer etiology, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention and may be basic, translational, or clinical in nature (max $225k, LOI deadline 4 March, AACR membership required).
- Immunology letters study groups grants to support the establishment of study groups on specific areas of immunology-related research in order to stimulate and facilitate interaction among European researchers (max €7,500, deadline 8 March).
- Jeffrey Modell Foundation Translational Research Program: Primary Immunodeficiency (max $250k, deadline 13 March)
- AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Joanne Barlia Research Fellowship to encourage and support a postdoctoral or clinical research fellow to conduct ocular/uveal melanoma research and to establish a successful career path in ophthalmology, ocular oncology, uveal melanoma biology, or a similar field (max $130k, deadline 21 March, AACR membership required).
- AACR-Ocular Melanoma Foundation Career Development Award to encourage and support early-stage investigators to conduct ocular/uveal melanoma research and establish a successful career path in ophthalmology, ocular oncology, uveal melanoma biology, or a similar field (max $150k, deadline 21 March, AACR membership required).
- Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark), Wellcome (UK) and the Volkswagen Foundation: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility and Global Health. Can include projects on the mobility of animals and goods, and what this means for the spread of animal and vector-borne diseases and their effects on human populations (pilot phase max €50k, full stage max €1.5m, pilot phase deadline 25 March).
- Wellcome Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible (max £2.5m, deadline 3 April).
- VALIDATE Fellowships for vaccine R&D focused on mycobacteria, leishmania, and burkholderia pseudomallei (max £150k, deadline 8 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- Royal Society Research Professorships (max £1.4mil, deadline 8 May).
- 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).
- CRUK Biology to Prevention Award (max £600k, deadline 20 June).
- CRUK Early Detection and Diagnosis Project Award (max £500k, deadline 20 June).
- 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
- Oxford Martin School funding for solutions-focused research impacting future generations (max £1mil, deadline 19 Feb).
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (Round 9) supports early career researchers, with outstanding potential, to tackle challenging research and develop their own careers (internal deadline 11 March).
- MSD Bridging Salary Scheme to support early career researchers working in the Medical Sciences Division who are on externally-funded contracts by providing short-term bridging salary support (deadline 13 March).
- 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).