External Funding Opportunities
The list below is a brief overview of calls run by other funders, you can find out more by visiting their websites for detailed information.
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Career Development
Call: Daphne Jackson Fellowship
Funder: Medical Research Council and The Daphne Jackson Trust
Rolling call
*Non-clinical researchers only*
These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons. The aim is to give participants the confidence and skills they need to make a successful return to research.
Call: 2024 PCF Young Investigator Awards
Funder: Prostate Cancer Foundation
Opens on 29th January 2024
Submission Deadline: 15 April 2024
*International Funding Call*
Funding to advance the career of early career prostate cancer. Encouraging young investigators working on prostate cancer health disparities to apply.
Funding Organisations
UK Organisations
Biomedical and health research funder offering support to those interested in pursuing a medical research career.
Grants of interest: Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers and Clinician Scientist Fellowships.
Funding for researchers working on a wide range of cancer types. Provides funding for small scale studies to larger projects involving several research teams. Also support career development with opportunities for those at the different career levels.
Grants of interest: Cancer Grand Challenges, Career Development Fellowship, Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship, Biomarker Project Awards, Clinical Trial Award, Discovery Programme Awards.
The NIHR provides funding for early translational research, clinical research and applied health and social care research through different grant funding calls. Funding for health researchers from a range professions, backgrounds and research fields. See the NIHR Academy for support with training, career development and research capacity development opportunities.
Grants of interest: HTA, PGfAR, RfPB, i4i, NIHR Fellowship Programme.
Funds prostate cancer studies to help those whose lives have been affected by prostate cancer.
Invests in research aimed at bringing patient benefit and finding healthcare solutions.
Grants of interest: seedcorn grants, project grants, interdisciplinary awards, early career fellowships.
Science funder with schemes to encourage research in a variety of scientific fields. Offer support for biological research.
Grants of interest: seed corn research grants and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship.
Encourages research into the diagnosis and treatment of urological diseases and funding for urology professionals.
Grants of interest: Innovation and Research Fund, Education and Training Programmes.
Made up of research councils each centered on funding research within specific sectors. The Medical Research Council funds human health related research and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council focuses on bioscience. Innovate UK provides funding for innovative services and products.
Grants of interest: Clinician scientist fellowship, Clinical research training fellowship, partnership awards, new investigator awards, programme awards.
Research-led’ charity focused on groundbreaking research and supporting services that have the biggest impact on cancer for people in Yorkshire.
International Organisations
Horizon Europe is an initiative implemented by the European Commission to fund research and innovation.
Competitive funding for researchers to encourage high-quality research in Europe.
Grants of interest: Starting grants, advanced grants and proof of concept grants.
Dedicated to funding prostate cancer research and helping to develop the careers of researchers.
Grants of interest: Young Investigator Awards and Challenge Award
Aim is to fund research for all cancer types and discover ways to to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.