Diabetes UK Project Grants
Funds United Kingdom biomedical teams conducting diabetes projects with hypothesis-driven methods.
Diabetes UK Project Grants are the organisation's flagship research funding mechanism, supporting high-quality, hypothesis-driven diabetes research projects at UK academic institutes and NHS Trusts. Awards of up to £500,000 fund project durations of up to five years, covering eligible staff costs (technicians, postdoctoral researchers, and research assistants — excluding PhD students and PI/co-app…
Hypothesis-driven diabetes research. One open Highlight Notice: Restoring the Glucagon Safety Net, on improving the lived experience of hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetes.
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