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Small molecule High Throughput Screen using AstraZeneca facilities

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 autoimmunity or motor neurone disease.

Contracts for Innovation: Clean Energy Demonstrators in Tanzania

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.8 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop innovative clean energy demonstrators in Tanzania.

Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: January 2025

Apply 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 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding.

Innovate UK Smart Grants: November 2024

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game changing and commercially viable research and development innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.

Expression of interest: Experimental medicine to define new mechanisms of neurodegeneration

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of neurodegenerative conditions that give rise to dementia.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

AHRC responsive mode pilot: Mission Awards: full stage invite only

Funding to advance ambitious arts and humanities research agendas, research leadership and research teams, at scale, through a pilot approach to team-convening.

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application.

New Generation Thinkers 2025

This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for this opportunity.

AI solutions to develop AI competencies in key sectors

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to support AI upskilling in BridgeAI key sectors.

Collaborative R&D: Creative Catalyst

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for projects that develop new innovative products and tools for the UK creative industry. This funding is part of Innovate UK’s Creative Catalyst.

3D Nanoscale Metamaterials Hub for a Sustainable Future

Apply for funding to create a research hub focused on developing 3D Nanoscale Metamaterials that support Sustainable Futures. The hub should cover fundamental discovery through to routes to translation and manufacturing.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding.

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