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Opportunity status: Open Funders: Funding type: Grant Total fund: £11,000,000 Publication date: 20 November 2025 Opening date: 20 November 2025 9:00am UK time Closing date: 18 March 2026 4:00pm UK time Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. Your project can start and finish at any stage on the developmental pathway from prototype development, through pre-clinical refinement and testing to early-phase clinical studies and trials (up to phase 2a). You must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding. There is no limit on the amount of funding you can apply for, but it should be appropriate to the project. We usually fund 80% of a project’s full economic cost (FEC). This is an ongoing funding opportunity. This funding opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility. . Who is eligible to apply To be eligible to apply for this funding opportunity you must: be employed by an eligible research organisation show that you will direct the project and be actively engaged in the work be looking to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions If you do not have a contract of employment for the duration of the proposed project, by submitting an application the research organisation is confirming, if it is successful: contracts will be extended beyond the end date of the project all necessary support for you and the project will be provided, including mentorship and career development for early career researchers Who is not eligible to apply You are not eligible to apply for this funding opportunity as a project lead if you are based at an international research organisation. This does not include project leads from MRC Unit The Gambia or MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. International researchers As MRC is a lead funder for this funding opportunity, international researchers can apply as ‘project co-lead (international)’. Project co-leads (international) make a major intellectual contribution to the design or conduct of the project. Their contribution and added value to the research collaboration should be clearly explained and justified in the application, see Applicant and team capability to deliver. Read the for more details.

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