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Search and filter this listApply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.
Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots.
Two funding opportunities per year with changing highlights. This funding opportunity will have a highlight on new targets related to pain or women’s health (including conditions related to metabolic disorders).
These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences.
You must have either:
- a PhD
- more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship
Candidates with more research experience may prefer to apply for our open fellowship.
Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges.
This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants.
We will award 80% of the full economic costs (FEC) of the project.
EPSRC wishes to understand the scale, nature, and scientific value of potential large-scale infrastructure investments to maintain the UK as a leading scientific nation. Representatives of relevant scientific communities are invited to submit statements of need according to the assessment criteria.
Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions.
You must be employed at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Apply for funding for breakthrough or disruptive interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines that are not routinely funded through existing UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) responsive mode schemes.
Project leads must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI research council funding.
Apply for a collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities. These awards enable UK non-higher education institutions (non-HEI), individual or consortia, to support high-quality doctoral training.
Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.
Your application must include an intervention in humans.
You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding. Researchers transitioning to independence may be eligible to apply as a ‘new investigator’.