Biotech grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Supports United Kingdom technology scale-up through a hybrid programme for growth firms with either raised capital or active revenue.

Between cycles

Supports Strathclyde community teams building entrepreneurial skills through a practical team challenge program.

Between cycles

Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.

Between cycles

Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

Between cycles

Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

Between cycles

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

Closed

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

Closed

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Closed

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

Closed

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

Open

Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

Open

Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

Open

Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

Open

Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.

Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.

Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.

Open

Funds four centres to work out how cancer actually spreads — each on one theme, through two or three interlocking basic research projects.

Open

Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.

Funds teams up to $800,000 to build cheap pathogen-sequencing workflows for poorer countries.