MRC Research Grant: Applicant-led

The Medical Research Council (MRC) offers flexible grant support for exciting and ambitious research to transform understanding of human health and disease. This applicant-led funding opportunity supports discovery and early translational research within MRC's remit, driving important insights into causes and mechanisms of disease to accelerate diagnosis, advance treatment and prevent human illness. The grant supports focused research that is flexible in duration and scale, longer-term ambitious research addressing interrelated questions, and proof of principle work to test key hypotheses or demonstrate feasibility for new research avenues. MRC welcomes applications incorporating global perspectives in discovery and early translational research with potential to improve global health, as well as team-science approaches and multidisciplinary research. This is an open, rolling funding opportunity with no closing date - applications are accepted and processed continuously.