Funding Opportunities

Bringing together the latest opportunities from the main UK research funders

We try to collate all dementia research funding opportunities that open to UK researchers. To find funding that is right for you, use the filters to the side of this page. The listings include summary information, and links to the source page. If you are searching for a PhD or Fellowship post, our jobs section may also be of interest.
If you are based elsewhere in the world you will find more grant calls on the Alz Forum.

If you are a dementia research funder, you can add your call directly to our listings via our advertise page (note you will need to register an account to do this).


  • NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme

    NIHR Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme offers research delivery nurses, midwives and allied health professionals the opportunity to develop as Principal Investigators

    30/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Wellcome Discovery Awards

    Wellcome Discovery Awards support researchers or teams to pursue bold, creative ideas with potential to transform understanding of life, health, and wellbeing

    29/07/2025   |   Wellcome Trust
  • Wellcome Career Development Awards

    Wellcome Career Development Awards fund mid-career researchers to lead bold research and become global leaders in health, life, and wellbeing-related fields.

    24/07/2025   |   Wellcome Trust
  • NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award

    NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award supports senior researchers to progress to Reader/Professor level, focusing on impactful public health research.

    10/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Product Development Awards (PDA)

    NIHR i4i Product Development Awards fund the development of innovative health technologies. Open to outline applications now. Includes commercialisation support

    28/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR HTA Postdoctoral Award

    New NIHR HTA-Postdoctoral Award helps future leaders fund clinical studies alongside a Postdoc Career Development Award. Includes training & mentorship.

    30/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR EME Programme Researcher-led

    NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme funding studies evaluating interventions that promote health, treatment of disease, rehab or long-term care.

    05/08/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR EME Postdoctoral Award

    The MRC-NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme and the NIHR Postdoctoral Career Development Awards scheme

    30/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Doctoral Award

    NIHR Doctoral Award designed to support the career development of all health and social care professionals through PhD research.

    10/06/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Better Methods Better Research

    Funding to ensure that optimal research methods are used to advance biomedical, health and care research, policy and delivery.

    01/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIA Academic Leadership Career Award

    Support for established investigators who have the expertise and leadership skills to enhance aging and/or Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) research capacity within their academic institution.

    12/06/2025   |   National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA
  • NIHR Postdoctoral Award

    The UK NIHR Postdoctoral Award is aimed at anyone with a PhD or a submitted PhD thesis under assessment who hasn’t yet been appointed to a professorial post.

    03/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Collaborative Research Network 2025 Technical Track Opportunity

    Michael J Fox Foundation invites collaborative teams to join ASAP’s Technical Track, creating validated, sharable research tools for Parkinson’s targets.

    05/05/2025   |   Michael J. Fox Foundation
  • GP2 Underrepresented Populations PhD Program 2025

    Michael J. Fox Foundation funding for supervisors who identify themselves as belonging to an underrepresented group in Parkinson’s research to apply for funding for a trainee to pursue a PhD in the genetics or a related subject

    05/05/2025   |   Michael J. Fox Foundation
  • Healthcare Project Grants and Studentships

    Apply now for MND Association Healthcare Project Grants — advancing quality of life & MND care standards. Deadline: 25 April 2025.

    25/04/2025   |   Motor Neurone Disease Association
  • MND Non-Clinical Research Fellowships

    Applications open for MND Association Junior & Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships, nurturing future MND research leaders. Apply by 25 April 2025.

    25/04/2025   |   Motor Neurone Disease Association
  • MND Biomedical PhD Studentships

    Apply now for MND Association PhD Studentships—funding exceptional young scientists in MND research. Deadline: 25 April 2025.

    25/04/2025   |   Motor Neurone Disease Association
  • NIHR Programme Development Grants

    NIHR Programme Development Grants invite researchers to apply for preparatory work or enhance ongoing research—up to £250k available

    21/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Compensatory interventions to facilitate swallowing in adults with dysphagia to fluids

    The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is looking to fund research into compensatory interventions to facilitate swallowing in adults with dysphagia to fluids.

    30/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Capital Investment Funding 2025

    NIHR Capital Investment funding for NHS organisations in England to strengthen research infrastructure, with a specific emphasis on enhancing primary care capabilities

    14/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • MND Discovery Network Awards

    Join interdisciplinary teams tackling MND biology with innovative research. Apply for £1M funding over 3 years from My Name’5 Doddie Foundation by 21 May 2025.

    21/05/2025   |   My Name’5 Doddie Foundation
  • MND Advancing Treatment Awards

    The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Advancing Treatments Award will support the early-stage development of new treatments to slow, stop or reverse MND progression

    02/05/2025   |   My Name’5 Doddie Foundation
  • HSDR Programme researcher-led

    NIHR HSDR Programme is looking to fund high quality, well designed research which will be carried out by effective and efficient research teams, providing findings which meet the needs of NHS and social care managers and leaders

    29/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Midlife interventions

    NIHR Public Health Research Programme funding research to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for people in midlife that promote healthy & active ageing

    15/08/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards

    Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards for talented scholars who are embarking on a university career who need to build a research team of sufficient scale to tackle a distinctive research problem

    30/05/2025   |   Leverhulme Trust
  • Philip Leverhulme Prizes

    Philip Leverhulme Prizes – For ECRs whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising – to use for any research purpose

    14/05/2025   |   Leverhulme Trust
  • Major Research Fellowships

    Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships for established, distinguished researchers in the humanities & social sciences to complete a piece of original research

    09/05/2025   |   Leverhulme Trust
  • Research for Patient Benefit

    The NIHR RfPB Programme is inviting applications for research concerned with day-to-day practice of health service staff, and with potential to impact health or wellbeing of patients

    09/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Neuroscience Training Grants

    The Neuroscience Training Grants are designed to support these essential opportunities, covering costs such as training course fees, travel and accommodation.

    31/05/2025   |   International Brain Research Organization
  • 2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

    Apply for Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills

    07/05/2025   |   UK Research and Innovation
  • NIHR Global Health Research

    The NIHR Global Health Research – Health Policy and Systems (GHR-HPS) programmes are inviting applications to this new annual funding opportunity.

    04/06/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Research Programme for Social Care

    The NIHR Research Programme for Social Care (RPSC) is accepting Outline Applications for their latest researcher-led RPSC funding opportunity.

    25/06/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Parkinson’s UK Senior Research Fellowships

    Parkinson’s UK Senior Fellowships to support outstanding scientists who will be future leaders in Parkinson’s research.

    02/07/2025   |   Parkinson's UK
  • Parkinson’s UK Grants for non-drug approaches

    Funding for creative, innovative research into non-drug approaches that will play a vital part in helping people living with Parkinson’s manage their daily challenges

    15/05/2025   |   Parkinson's UK
  • Primary Care Commercial Research Delivery Centres

    The NIHR PC-CRDCs will serve as centres of excellence, focussing on boosting the commercial research delivery capacity in primary care organisations.

    07/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

    UKRI Fellowship Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UKRI’s remit and looking to establish or transition to independence and developing their own original research

    18/06/2025   |   UK Research and Innovation
  • HTA Programme researcher-led evidence synthesis

    The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is looking to fund evidence synthesis research – outline application deadline 7th May 2025

    07/05/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Public Health Research Programme – commissioned workstream

    The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is inviting outline applications to their continuing areas of research interest call

    25/04/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • NIHR Public Health Research Programme researcher-led

    The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is inviting outline applications to their researcher-led workstream.

    25/04/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Swiss-UK investigator-led randomised controlled clinical trials

    The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are looking to fund investigator-led randomised controlled clinical trials in areas of unmet clinical need.

    09/09/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Brain Health ARC: Small Grants

    The Scottish Brain Health ARC can offer support towards research projects or other activities that may lead to larger grants or fellowships.

    30/04/2025   |   Brain Health ARC
  • Mass media content

    The NIHR PHR Programme seeks research on health impacts of mass media, including social media, AI, and gaming. Address health inequalities. Apply now!

    25/04/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • 3Rs Student Grants 2025

    The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing supports ECRs to attend a high-profile scientific event. Apply for a travel grant.

    14/05/2025   |   NC3Rs
  • Stroke Association / BHF Clinical Study Grants

    BHF and Stroke Association Clinical Study Grants supports funding for over £350,000 for Intervention Trials, Observational Studies and Clinical Studies

    23/10/2025   |   British Heart FoundationStroke Association
  • Australia-UK Platform studies in areas of unmet clinical need

    Inviting applications for platform studies in areas of unmet medical need – must be internationally collaborative, with leads in Australia and the UK

    23/07/2025   |   National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • University Research Fellowship (URF) Programme

    Royal Society Fellowship funding to support the next generation of research leaders to undertake cutting-edge research. Closes 10th September 2024.

    10/09/2024   |   The Royal Society

Dementia Research Funders Forum

The Dementia Research Funders Forum (DRFF) is a meeting of UK charity and public sector funders of dementia research. The purpose of the DRFF is to exchange information and coordinate activity in order to help shape the dementia funding environment at the national level. From time to time the DRFF provides reports to  the Department of Health Programme Board on Dementia, which is responsible for delivering the Government’s Challenge on Dementia to 2020.

Membership of the DRFF comprises representatives from: Alzheimer’s Research UK (Chair), Alzheimer’s Society, AHRC, Department of Health, EPSRC, ESRC, MND Association, MRC, NIHR, Parkinson’s UK, STFC, Stroke Association,  Wellcome Trust.

For further information or for funders who wish to join the group please contact research@alzheimersresearchuk.org

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