Funding Opportunities

The UK NIHR Postdoctoral Award is aimed at anyone with a PhD or a submitted PhD thesis under assessment who hasn’t yet been appointed to a professorial post.

Michael J Fox Foundation invites collaborative teams to join ASAP’s Technical Track, creating validated, sharable research tools for Parkinson’s targets.

Michael J. Fox Foundation funding for supervisors who identify themselves as belonging to an underrepresented group in Parkinson’s research to apply for funding for a trainee to pursue a PhD in the genetics or a related subject

Apply now for MND Association Healthcare Project Grants — advancing quality of life & MND care standards. Deadline: 25 April 2025.

Applications open for MND Association Junior & Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships, nurturing future MND research leaders. Apply by 25 April 2025.

Apply now for MND Association PhD Studentships—funding exceptional young scientists in MND research. Deadline: 25 April 2025.

NIHR Programme Development Grants invite researchers to apply for preparatory work or enhance ongoing research—up to £250k available

The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is looking to fund research into compensatory interventions to facilitate swallowing in adults with dysphagia to fluids.

EQUADEM Network Plus project funding call! Seeking collaborative pilot projects that focus on solutions to addressing inequalities in dementia – Deadline Extended to 9th April

NIHR Capital Investment funding for NHS organisations in England to strengthen research infrastructure, with a specific emphasis on enhancing primary care capabilities

Join interdisciplinary teams tackling MND biology with innovative research. Apply for £1M funding over 3 years from My Name’5 Doddie Foundation by 21 May 2025.

The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Advancing Treatments Award will support the early-stage development of new treatments to slow, stop or reverse MND progression

NIHR HSDR Programme is looking to fund high quality, well designed research which will be carried out by effective and efficient research teams, providing findings which meet the needs of NHS and social care managers and leaders

NIHR Public Health Research Programme funding research to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for people in midlife that promote healthy & active ageing

Funding to reimburse time and expenses for public partners to work with researchers to develop Medical Research Council funding applications

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards for talented scholars who are embarking on a university career who need to build a research team of sufficient scale to tackle a distinctive research problem

Philip Leverhulme Prizes – For ECRs whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising – to use for any research purpose

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships for established, distinguished researchers in the humanities & social sciences to complete a piece of original research

The NIHR RfPB Programme is inviting applications for research concerned with day-to-day practice of health service staff, and with potential to impact health or wellbeing of patients

AFAR Fellowship providing students with the opportunity to conduct a twelve-month research project focused on biomedical research in aging.

The Neuroscience Training Grants are designed to support these essential opportunities, covering costs such as training course fees, travel and accommodation.

Apply for Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills

Call is to promote dementia research in Switzerland and to support innovative projects of independent principal investigators at Swiss universities or public research institutions.

Dementia Research Switzerland – Synapsis Foundation & Race Against Dementia Career Development / Fellowship Award competition – for researchers at Swiss / IBRO Institutions

The NIHR Global Health Research – Health Policy and Systems (GHR-HPS) programmes are inviting applications to this new annual funding opportunity.

The NIHR Research Programme for Social Care (RPSC) is accepting Outline Applications for their latest researcher-led RPSC funding opportunity.

Parkinson’s UK Senior Fellowships to support outstanding scientists who will be future leaders in Parkinson’s research.

Funding for creative, innovative research into non-drug approaches that will play a vital part in helping people living with Parkinson’s manage their daily challenges

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) is inviting applications for research proposals to develop individual programmes of applied health research.

The NIHR PC-CRDCs will serve as centres of excellence, focussing on boosting the commercial research delivery capacity in primary care organisations.

The Lewy Body Dementia Association New Investigator Pilot Study Award to support pilot translational or clinical studies for the purpose of developing preliminary data to be used in future grant applications

Healthcare pfoessionals can apply for funding to undertake a PhD. Your research can focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health.

Apply for support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field. Your research can focus on any area of MRCs remit to improve human health

Funding for healthcare professionals with a PhD working outside research to reacquire research skills – working in any area of the MRC’s remit

Funding for Students and ECRs in Europe to foster their scope of methodological training by supporting goal-directed lab visits in European institutions

UKRI Fellowship Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UKRI’s remit and looking to establish or transition to independence and developing their own original research

The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is looking to fund evidence synthesis research – outline application deadline 7th May 2025

You can apply for support to become an independent researcher, if your research focus is within Medical Research Council (MRC) remit to improve human health.

The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is inviting outline applications to their continuing areas of research interest call

The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is inviting outline applications to their researcher-led workstream.

The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is looking to fund research into effectiveness of technologies for people living with deafblindness in social care settings.

The NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme is accepting Outline Applications to funding research highlighted by NICE.

IBRO Rising Stars Awards aim to support diverse, early-career neuroscientists in establishing their own laboratories by providing essential start-up funds

The NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme is accepting Outline Applications to their researcher-led workstream. 

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are looking to fund investigator-led randomised controlled clinical trials in areas of unmet clinical need.

The Scottish Brain Health ARC can offer support towards research projects or other activities that may lead to larger grants or fellowships.

The NIHR PHR Programme seeks research on health impacts of mass media, including social media, AI, and gaming. Address health inequalities. Apply now!

The NIHR HTA Programme seeks ambitious, data-enabled e-trial proposals. Transform health research with innovative, scalable designs. Apply now!

The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing supports ECRs to attend a high-profile scientific event. Apply for a travel grant.

BHF and Stroke Association Clinical Study Grants supports funding for over £350,000 for Intervention Trials, Observational Studies and Clinical Studies

Inviting applications for platform studies in areas of unmet medical need – must be internationally collaborative, with leads in Australia and the UK

The ISTAART Grant Program for Conferences and Convenings to help foster and facilitate PIAs-driven efforts to expand and accelerate research discussion.

Royal Society Fellowship funding to support the next generation of research leaders to undertake cutting-edge research. Closes 10th September 2024.