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).
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UKRI policy fellowships 2025
Spend 18 months as a UKRI policy fellow tackling national & global challenges. Help shape policy, build networks, & drive change across research and government
15/07/2025 | UK Research and Innovation -
Collaborate with researchers in Norway
Norway-based researchers can join UK-led UKRI bids as project co-leads under the Money Follows Cooperation agreement, with up to 30% of costs funded.
31/12/2025 | UK Department for Education -
MRC Career development award
🚨 MRC Career Development Awards now open! Secure funding for up to 5 years to become an independent researcher. No funding cap. Deadline: 14 May.
10/09/2025 | Medical Research Council -
Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments
Apply for up to £600k to deploy digital cognitive assessments in dementia as part of the READ-OUT study. Funded by Innovate UK. Closes 11am on 14th May
14/05/2025 | Innovate UK -
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