Introducing our types of funding

Our main funding schemes are Investigator Awards, Fellowships and Strategic Awards. We also provide a variety of funding schemes that are tailored to particular fields or initiatives, such as technology transfer awards to translate research into health products, and awards for research into medical history and humanities, and biomedical ethics.

To help society engage with and understand the biomedical sciences, we provide funding for artists, broadcasters and others in the creative industries.

Investigator Awards Funding for world-class researchers with a compelling long-term vision for their research.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Investigator Awards in biomedical science

Fellowships

Our fellowships fund outstanding individuals at all stages of their career.

They provide support for young researchers to be trained and mentored in the best environments, enable more experienced researchers to develop their own independent research programmes, and fund internationally recognised researchers to undertake world-class research.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Fellowships in biomedical science
• Fellowships in medical history and humanities
• Fellowships and personal awards in biomedical ethics (UK/RoI)
• Fellowships and personal awards in biomedical ethics (international) 

Strategic Awards Our Strategic Awards support ambitious, large-scale initiatives or research programmes that address our five research challenges as outlined in our 2010-20 Strategic Plan .

The Awards are highly flexible, and have a wide-ranging remit: they can be used to address major research questions, to develop infrastructure, training, collaborations, or new fields of research, or to build bridges between disciplines.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Strategic awards in biomedical science
• Strategic Translation Awards in technology transfer
• Capital funding for learned societies
• Capital funding for public engagement and medical history

Technology transfer awards Funding for applied research and development projects to a stage where they are attractive to a follow-on funder, such as venture capital firms, industry and public-private partnerships.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Technology transfer funding

Public engagement awards Our Engaging Science grants programme supports projects that aim to inform and inspire the public about biomedical science and its social contexts. These can include films, theatre productions, exhibitions, events and multimedia.

Our funded activities also include directly commissioned work and partnerships with other organisations to reach broader audiences and support innovative practice.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Public engagement funding

Medical history and humanities awards Fuding for historically grounded research and public engagement activities that address important questions at the interface of science, medicine and the humanities.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Medical history and humanities funding
• Capital funding for learned societies

Biomedical ethics awards Funding for research into ethical issues that arise in the development and delivery of healthcare or the use of medical techniques in non-healthcare contexts.

This includes: the ethics of biomedical or health research; ethical issues arising in the translation of such research into practice; ethical issues arising in clinical care; and ethical issues arising from the delivery of care, including policy and public health.

For full details and to apply for funding, see:

• Biomedical ethics funding