Research funding opportunities

The RD Lawrence Fellowship is a career development fellowship that enables postdoctoral researchers to establish their independence in diabetes research.

The goal of this funding opportunity is to accelerate the identification and validation of reagents that promote immune rebalance and the protection of beta cell function through modulating the trafficking of immune cells to the pancreatic islets. Proposals submitted for this opportunity should describe the preclinical or clinical development of therapeutic strategies targeting the trafficking of disease-relevant immune cell populations.

The aim of this call is advancing our understanding of glycaemic changes during disease progression in presymptomatic individuals (Stages 1 and 2), with the potential to improve progression biomarkers and monitoring their transition to clinical diagnosis (Stage 3). The focus of this call is the improvement of current or new metabolic risk assessment tools and their integration into clinically and commercially utilized testing platforms.

Through strategic grant funding, the MRC supports a number of ongoing research initiatives.