Funding Opportunities

Seed Fund for Emerging and Early Career Researchers

The call for applications for the 2025/26 Seed Funding Award will open soon - stay tuned for further details!

The award is designed to support early and mid career researchers to build pilot data aimed at developing an intervention or preparing for a clinical trial. We are committed to keeping the patient voice at the heart of all our work and encourage meaningful and valuable collaboration with Public & Patient partners in proposed applications.

Congratulations Dr Carla Moran, Consultant Endocrinologist, recipient of the 2024 Award.  

The project will explore Cardiac Phenotype of Resistance to Thyroid Hormone beta, a rare condition (1-2 people per 40,000) which is usually inherited.

Congratulations Dr Laura Williams, Consultant Neurologist, recipient of the 2023 Award.  

The project will pilot an inexpensive wearable device that measures dystonia severity to assess if it can offer a means to measure the effectiveness of treatments in clinical trials and in  clinical practice.

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