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Apply for UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships (Round 10) to secure funding for ambitious, independent research or innovation projects—open to early career researchers and innovators from eligible academic or non-academic institutions, with projects lasting up to four years and no cost limits.

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape.

VaxHub Members are invited to submit applications to support platform funded projects. A platform funded project could focus on testing or demonstrating research results generated on a VaxHub related vaccine technology.

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in Engineering Biology. This funding opportunity will train the next generation of researchers in cutting-edge technologies applicable to a diverse range of careers.

Cancer Research Horizon’s Seed Fund builds on 25 years of creating and building successful start-ups. It is a £15 million investment commitment from Cancer Research UK, managed by its dedicated Ventures team, to help bridge one of the most challenging stages of start-up creation: attracting early-stage risk capital.

The Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory – a joint venture between the Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and AstraZeneca – aims to combine know-how and experience to accelerate the development of biomarkers and therapeutics for diseases through functional interrogation of the genome at scale. 

UK registered businesses can apply for funding for life science manufacturing capital investment projects which help increase UK health resilience.