Research funding opportunities

To develop new or improved simple for patients, quick, inexpensive, minimally-invasive, safe and accurate diagnostic products/approaches which can differentiate between lung conditions, phenotypes of individual lung conditions and/or causes of exacerbations (e.g. to reduce exacerbations and the winter NHS burden).

These awards aim to enable world-class research teams to tackle challenges in priority areas of asthma research.

Provides funding for translational research projects in one of their three priority areas: Acquired Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, Neuro-oncology, Headache and Facial Pain.

Support clinical trials and other clinical studies relevant to the cardiovascular system.

Special project grants to provide funding for basic or applied clinical research relevant to the cardiovascular system.

Population Research Project Awards provide support for focused research proposals centred on key questions in population research.

Supports research projects that address improved treatment for and survival from childhood and young person cancer and into improved quality of ongoing life.

Provides support for high quality, diabetes-related research. Applications should normally be for hypothesis-driven projects.

Fund research and policy analysis work to shine a light on how to make successful change happen within the healthcare sector

Despite significant progress in the development of alternative renewable sources of insulin producing cells to overcome the shortage of donor tissue, major scientific and technical challenges in overcoming recurring autoimmunity and allogeneic immune rejection remain which must be addressed before beta cell replacement can be widely implemented as a cure for established T1D. The reliance on systemic administration of immunosuppressive drugs to protect the cell graft from the recipient’s immune r...