Biotech grants in China
Explore Biotech grants for companies in China. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from Chinese innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in China, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in China come first.
Showing 25-48 of 357 grants
Creating the World Competition
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.
Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai researchers through the Natural Science Foundation with basic research funding in scientific fields.
NSFC Research Fund for International Scientists
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports international researchers at Chinese host institutions with research grants for deep collaboration.
NZ — China Strategic Research Alliance for Proposals
🇳🇿MBIE · New Zealand
Funds New Zealand and Chinese partnerships advancing environmental, climate, and biomedical collaborations.
Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Project (Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan)
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai returnee scholars through Pujiang programmes for reintegration into local research ecosystems.
Shanghai Rising-Star Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports emerging Shanghai science and technology talent through the Rising-Star programme for career development.
Shanghai Sci-Tech Little Giant Project
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai high-tech firms through the Little Giant programme via post-development innovation subsidy.
Shenzhen International Science and Technology Cooperation Project
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shanghai teams with international peers through STIC cooperation funding for joint research exchanges.
Agricultural Science and Technology Achievement Demonstration Projects
🇨🇳GDSTC · China
Funds Guangdong agricultural innovators demonstrating applied farming technologies through provincial project grants.
Hangzhou 131 Young Talent Plan — Selection
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Offers Hangzhou researchers and professionals annual recognition stipends focused on capability development and employer support.
R&D Super-Deduction Tax Incentive
🇨🇳STA · China
Provides Chinese companies a tax deduction framework for qualifying innovation spend through annual tax filing.
SME Development Fund of China
🇨🇳MOF+MIIT · China
Funds Chinese innovative small and medium-sized enterprises via commitments to specialist funds managed by MIIT-linked structures.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.
FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award
CDMRP · United States
Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.
Xcelerate Champion of Innovation
WHX Tech · United Arab Emirates
Pays an equity-free cash prize to the top healthcare startup pitching live at WHX Tech's Xcelerate competition in Dubai.
Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds theory and method development on how genetic and non-genetic factors together produce variation in complex traits, tested against large existing datasets.
Strategic Research Agreement — Round 1
Breakthrough T1D · United States
Funds investigator-led type 1 diabetes research partnerships across preclinical discovery, treatment, and translational priorities.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new analysis of clinical, genomic, environmental and registry data that already exists, to sharpen who is at risk of cancer and what happens to them.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.
Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds proof-of-concept work on a genuinely new tool, assay, platform or instrument for characterising cancer cells or handling biospecimens.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the same reanalysis of already-collected cancer data on a smaller, exploratory footing, for teams that do not need a full research project award.
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant
NIH · United States
Funds exploratory studies of the ethical, legal and social consequences of human genetics, especially where a technology or a use of genomic data is new.
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research
NIH · United States
Funds a full research project on the ethics, law and social effects of human genetics — and refuses to review an application with no diverse-perspectives plan.
Seamless Early-Stage Clinical Drug Development (Phase 1 to 2a) for Novel therapeutic Agents for the Spectrum of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related Dementias (ADRD)
NIH · United States
Funds one bundled run from first-in-human through phase 2a for a dementia drug that works on something other than amyloid or tau.