Submit Applications for Action Medical Research Project Grants in Child Health 2025 (UK)

The support focuses on child health to include problems affecting pregnancy, childbirth, babies, children and young people.

Scopes

• Applications are invited across the breadth of Action’s remit, to prevent and treat disease and disability by funding vital medical research in hospitals or research institutions across the UK. The remit focuses on child health to include problems affecting pregnancy, childbirth, babies, children and young people.
• Within child health, the emphasis is on clinical research or research at the interface between clinical and basic science that can be translated into clinical solutions in the short to medium term. Action supports a broad spectrum of research including medical engineering such as research and development of equipment and techniques to improve diagnosis, therapy and assistive technology (including orthoses, prostheses and aids to daily living).

Funding Information

• The upper limit for funding is £200,000.
• Projects may be up to 36 months in duration.

Eligibility Criteria

• Projects must be led by research-active professionals based at UK universities, hospitals or research institutes:
  • Applicants and co-applicants must be employed in UK based hospitals, universities or research institutes. Those involved in the project outside the UK can be named as collaborators.
  • The principal investigator (PI) is normally employed in a permanent position.
  • Fixed term employees on a long term contracts may be eligible to be a PI, providing the term of employment extends at least six months beyond the duration of the proposed research project and the host research institution is prepared to give all the necessary support to the individual and the project.
  • Applications from early career, independent investigators (e.g. University Lecturer within 5-years of first appointment) are encouraged.
  • Research workers who require personal support from a project grant, and who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the grant proposal, may be named as co-applicants with an established member of staff as the PI.

Application Requirements

• Applications should:
  • Address a significant, unmet need for babies (including unborn babies) or children and/or young people (CYP) in the UK
  • Explain how clinical impact could be achieved within the short to medium term
  • Have a strong scientific rationale
  • Describe a discrete medical research project
  • Start after December 2025

For more information, visit Action Medical Research.