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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