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Medical Research Council (MRC) - New Investigator Research Grant
Provides support for clinical and non-clinical researchers while they are establishing themselves as independent principal investigators. Applicants must hold a PhD, Dphil or an MD with three to 10 years' postdoctoral research experience.
Award programme/theme
Early career investigator award
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
3-5 years
Submission deadline
Medical Research Council (MRC) - Partnership Grants
Provides core funds for one to five years to support new partnerships between diverse groupings of researchers and can be used for infrastracture support, platform activities and for bringing together managed consortia or multidisciplinary collaborations.
Award programme/theme
Partnership grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
5 years
Submission deadline
Medical Research Council (MRC) - Programme Grants
Provides grants for larger, longer term and renewable programmes. A programme is defined as a coordinated and coherent group of related projects, which may be developed to address an inter-related set of questions across a broad scientific area. Applicant must contact the Programme Manager of the relevant MRC Research Board to confirm whether the application fits the scheme at least six weeks before the submission deadline.
Award programme/theme
Programme grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
3-5 years
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME)
Primarily supports clinical trials, and other robustly designed studies that test the efficacy of interventions. The interventions should have the potential to improve patient care or benefit the public. The programme will only support studies where there is sufficient evidence that the intervention might work in man, i.e. that there is ‘proof of concept’.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR)
Funds research to produce rigorous and relevant evidence on the quality, accessibility and organisation of health services. This includes evaluations of how the NHS might improve delivery of services.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
Funds research about the clinical and cost effectiveness and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests for NHS users and service providers. The study outcomes should lead to findings that have potential to be of direct benefit to NHS patients.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR)
Supports work that will deliver findings with practical application, typically through improved healthcare or better healthcare delivery, within three to five years of programme's end.
Award programme/theme
Programme grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
Over 5 years
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Systematic Reviews (SR)
Funds systematic reviews to identify, evaluate, combine and summarise the findings of all relevant individual studies, to provide decision makers with the best possible information about the effects of tests, treatments and other interventions used in health and social care.
Funding amount range
Over £500,000