Biotech grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Biotech grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 169-192 of 799 grants
NERC Independent Research Fellowship
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Supports early-career environmental researchers in the United Kingdom by funding personal fellowships for independent programmes in environmental science.
Osteoarthritis Treatments Research Consortium
🇬🇧Arthritis UK · United Kingdom
Funds a UK osteoarthritis drug-development consortium, up to £3 million over 5 years.
Pre-doctoral Research Bursary
🇬🇧CRUK · United Kingdom
Pays up to £25k for clinicians to get short-term cancer research experience.
Prevention and Population Programme Award
🇬🇧CRUK · United Kingdom
Funds UK cancer researchers up to £2.5m over five years for prevention and population studies.
Professional doctorate: clinical research training fellowship
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for registered healthcare professionals undertaking a PhD or similar.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom medical teams developing point-of-care blood diagnostics for use in field operations.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics: Optimising Safety on Deployed Operations
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports innovative point-of-care blood testing devices for military medical operations in deployed settings.
Regulators' Pioneer Fund — Round 4
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom regulators with pilot innovation that improves service quality and public delivery.
Research Fellowship
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Funds early-career dementia fellows with salary-backed independent research support to strengthen real-world implementation.
Senior Research Fellowship
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Funds senior dementia researchers transitioning to independent group leadership to strengthen real-world implementation.
SMART: SCOTLAND
🇬🇧Scottish Enterprise · United Kingdom
Funds Scottish SMEs conducting high-risk feasibility studies to prove out novel technologies through Scottish Enterprise R&D grants.
Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.
Sustained Viral Resilience
🇬🇧ARIA · United Kingdom
Funds R&D teams up to £8M to build durable, broad-spectrum antiviral medicines.
Tees Valley Export Fund
🇬🇧TVCA · United Kingdom
Supports Tees Valley firms entering export markets through the Tees Valley Export Fund.
Translational Innovation Hub Network for Lung Health and Infection in Cystic Fibrosis
🇬🇧LifeArc · United Kingdom
Funds UK research institutions to build up to three Innovation Hubs that translate new lung health and infection treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.
UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 11 — Academic Stream
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Supports early-career United Kingdom researchers at universities and institutes through UKRI Future Leaders Academic fellowships for independent research leadership.
UKRI Translation: BBSRC Proof of Concept 2026
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to translate bioscience research into products, services or solutions.
Parkwalk EIS University Funds
🇬🇧Parkwalk Advisors · United Kingdom
Supports Parkwalk EIS and university founders with strategic innovation funds for early ventures.
Innovate UK Smart Grants
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.
Commercial POC Fund
🇬🇧UCLB · United Kingdom
Offers UCL teams access to support that turns campus proof-of-concept work into licensable and investable innovation.
Parkinson's UK / MRC Career Development Award
🇬🇧Parkinson's UK · United Kingdom
Funds joint Parkinson's United Kingdom and Medical Research Council career development fellowships for independent-ready researchers in the United Kingdom.
Social Ventures POC Fund
🇬🇧UCLB · United Kingdom
Supports UCL social ventures with proof-of-concept guidance that helps promising ideas become operational solutions.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.