Upcoming Calls
December 2024 call for 2025/6 awards
This will be an open competition round across our full remit.
Call opening: December 2024
Outline deadline: 11 February 2025
Full application deadline: June 2025
Full outcome expected: by the end of 2025
Awards: December2025/January 2026
February 2024 call for 2024/5 awards - Now closed
This is an open competition round across our full remit.
As part of this round, there are also opportunities for potential joint awards with Borne, Cystic Fibrosis Trust and DEBRA
Call opened: December 2023
Outline deadline: Tuesday 27 February by 5pm
Full application deadline: June 2024
Full outcome expected: by the end of 2024
PAST CALLS
Spring 2023 call for summer 2024 awards - Now closed
Joint translational funding from Action Medical Research and LifeArc
Action Medical Research and LifeArc want to improve the lives of children suffering from rare disease and are working together to co-fund translational, rare disease research projects. Co-funding aims to accelerate promising, cutting-edge medical research that could have a significant impact on the treatment of infants, children and young people (CYP) with any of the >7000 heterogeneous conditions collectively called ‘rare disease’.
Remit
The joint fund will be used to support biomedical research projects from across the UK that have moved beyond a basic understanding of rare disease mechanisms into the development of an intervention (therapeutic, diagnostic, or device).
Call opened: Early May 2023
Outline deadline: Wednesday 14 June 2023 by 5pm
Full application deadline: November 2023
Full outcome expected: Summer 2024
May 2022 call for summer 2023 awards - NOW CLOSED
This call was for joint translational funding from Action Medical Research and LifeArc
Action Medical Research and LifeArc want to improve the lives of children suffering from rare disease and are working together to co-fund translational, rare disease research projects. Co-funding aims to accelerate promising, cutting-edge medical research that could have a significant impact on the treatment of infants, children and young people (CYP) with any of the >7000 heterogeneous conditions collectively called ‘rare disease’.
Remit
The joint fund was used to support biomedical research projects from across the UK that have moved beyond a basic understanding of rare disease mechanism into the development of an intervention (therapeutic, diagnostic, or device).
Call opened: 12 May 2022
Full outcomes: Summer 2023
January 2022 call for November 2022 awards - NOW CLOSED
This was an open competition round across our full remit.
As part of this round, there were also opportunities for potential joint awards with Borne.
Please scroll further down for information on the joint award opportunities including the call with Borne. There was a separate outline form for this part of the call.
Call opened: January 2022
Outline deadline: Tuesday 22 March 2022 by 5pm
Full application deadline: July 2022
Full outcome: November 2022 to January 2023