Funding Opportunities
We will happily help advertise relevant funding opportunities for network members. Please send the details to: funding@organonachip.org.uk
Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
The objectives of the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships are to:
- enable UK universities and research institutions to strategically recruit and attract outstanding research leaders to the UK from overseas by offering long-term support and flexible funding to conduct high-quality research
- strengthen research and help build a critical mass of excellence in the UK’s best university departments and research institutions in fields considered to be strategically important by the institution
The maximum grant value is £300,000. Funding can be used flexibly by the research fellow and as part of their start-up package to support their research programme and team.
Closing date: 23 March 2022. Please see further information
Research Project Grants
Leverhulme Trust funds researchers based at universities, institutions of higher education or registered charities with university-equivalent research capacity, to undertake an innovative and original research project
The maximum grant value is £500,000.
Research Project Grants may be held for up to five years.
Deadline for next round of detailed applications: 21 March. Please see further information.
Partner with researchers in Switzerland
UKRI funding to develop new and existing partnerships with researchers in Switzerland. You must:
- be currently in receipt of an active UKRI grant for the materials, synthetic biology, or life and physical sciences interface themes
- have been a UKRI grant holder for the languages theme (within the last five years of the closing date).
You can apply as a UK consortium. This opportunity can involve travel to Switzerland. Your project can cost up to £25,000 and run for between one month and one year. We will fund 100% of the cost.
Closing date: 8 March 2022. Please see further information
Organ-on-a-Chip Network and Emulate Proof of Concept Award
The UK organ-on-a-chip Network and Emulate, Inc. are pleased to offer Network members the opportunity to apply for a Proof of Concept Award to use a brand new core facility at Queen Mary University of London, The Queen Mary-Emulate Organs on Chips Centre.
The total initiative, generously supported by Emulate, consists of approximately £100k of funding and provides access to £120,000 of state-of-the-art organ-chip technology available at the The Queen Mary-Emulate Organs on Chips Centre. Further information
Next application deadline is 10 December 2021
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
This Royal Society scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career for outstanding postdoctoral scientists and engineers who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities or health issues.
Closing date is 3pm Wednesday 10 November 2021 and application information
Developing engineering biology breakthrough ideas
UKRI Cross-Council funding opportunity for ‘Breakthrough Awards’ in the field of Engineering Biology.
Your project must focus on one of the following themes from the National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP):
The FEC for a project is up to £125,000, and project timescale is up to 12 months.
Closing date is 28 July 2021 16:00 UK time and award information
Emulate: The Colon Intestine-Chip Grant Program
How would you advance your research with Organs-on-Chips technology?
One grant winner will be selected and receive over $130,000 of equipment, including the essential hardware, chips, validated cells, and scientific support to get started using Organs-on-Chips technology
Closing date June 30th 11:59pm ET and application information.
Animal Free Research UK: Student programme
This Summer Student Programme gives early career scientists valuable laboratory experience in animal free medical research. It helps to show them the importance of human-relevant, non-animal science to tackle human diseases.
Closing date: 5pm on Friday 9 April 2021 UK time and application information.
Animal Free Research UK: Pilot study grants
Animal Free Research UK is awarding Pilot Study Grants to explore new ideas in animal-replacement research that could advance human health. Pilot Study Grants of £5,000 provide short-term support for proof-of-concept studies for up to a maximum of 12 months. In 2021, we will be funding up to 10 one-year pilot studies.
Closing date: 30 April 2021 UK time and application information.
Industry Fellowships
The Industry Fellowship is part of the Royal Society's wider Science and Industry Programme which strives to promote the value and importance of science by connecting academia, industry and government. The Industry Fellowship scheme is open to academic and industrial researchers from early to senior career stages based in the UK and covers:
Eligible Costs:
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Fellows salary, excluding oncosts;
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Up to £4,000 can be claimed for research expenses per year.
Closing date: 20 April 2021 15.00 UK time and application information.
BBSRC collaborative training partnerships
UK registered businesses can apply for funding to set up and run collaborative training partnerships, in collaboration with research organisations. These partnerships should address industrial research challengesThe programme aims to:
- build capacity
- address strategic skills challenges in the UK bioeconomy
- provide candidates with research, innovation and transferable skills
- The lead applicant should not be eligible for UKRI or BBSRC grant funding
Closing date: 5 May 2021 16:00 UK time. Information and application details.
$50M Program in Human Organs, Physiology, and Engineering (HOPE)
In this program, Wellcome Leap aims to leverage the power of bioengineering to advance stem cells, organoids, and whole organ systems and connections that recapitulate human physiology in vitro and restore vital functions in vivo.
Abstract submission deadline: 1 December 2020. Further information and application details.
Bi/ond #OCCtransition award
Together with associations we are launching a call for researchers in the OOC field. This initiative aims to promote and accelerate the development of OOC models with the potential to reduce and replace animal testing.
The Prize/ Grant
The winner will receive an in-kind contribution from Bi/ond, with an estimated value of €15,000.00. With this budget Bi/ond will help the winner to transition from their current model to one based on OOC.
This grant will cover the following costs:
· Organ-on-chip hardware (inCHIPit™ and comPLATE™);
· F2F trainings;
· Online support.
Project duration: six months.
Proposal submission deadline: 17 December 2020, 5 pm CET. The call is open to researchers working in the European Union and the United Kingdom. Further information and application details.
UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address Covid-19
Proposals are invited for short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. Since we opened this competition in March 2020 the research and innovation community have responded with some excellent ideas and proposals.
Further information and application Closing date: 31 Dec 2020 16:00 GMT
NC3Rs CRACK IT: Challenges 2020
Challenge 37: STRATIS
The aim of this Challenge is to produce a human-relevant and high throughput in vitro or ex vivo platform that recapitulates the complex structures of skeletal muscle and the pathology of significant injury to them. The platform must offer a model for novel wound therapeutics and approaches to restore form and function after significant soft tissue injury.
Phase 1 application deadline: 5 November 2020.
Further information and application
NC3Rs: Skills and Knowledge Transfer grants
Supports the adoption of alternative, novel 3Rs models, tools and technologies within routine research practice, through the transfer of knowledge, skills and expertise. Awards are for up to 24 months, up to £75k (80% FEC). The scheme is currently open to applications
Deadline 4pm, 27 November 2020
Organ-on-a-Chip Network and Emulate Proof of Concept Award
The UK organ-on-a-chip Network and Emulate, Inc. are pleased to offer Network members the opportunity to apply for a Proof of Concept Award to use a brand new core facility at Queen Mary University of London, The Queen Mary-Emulate Organs on Chips Centre.
The total initiative, generously supported by Emulate, consists of approximately £100k of funding and provides access to £120,000 of state-of-the-art organ-chip technology available at the The Queen Mary-Emulate Organs on Chips Centre. Further information
This initiative will operate a rolling call, application deadlines are as follows:
1 March 2021/1 September 2021/1 March 2022
Get funding for ideas that address COVID-19
UKRI will support excellent proposals up to 18 months duration which meet at least one of the following:
- new research or innovation with a clear impact pathway that has the potential (within the period of the grant) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.
- supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential
- gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use
Wellcome Innovator Awards
These awards support researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health.
Level of funding: Up to £500,000, or up to £750,000 for multidisciplinary collaborations.
Duration of funding: Usually up to 24 months, or up to 36 months for multidisciplinary collaborations.
Apply on line any time. See award information