Successful research grants
In this repository we are able to share with colleagues examples of successful grant applications made to various funding agencies and schemes. The repository is intended to be a living database and will be updated with new grants as they are awarded to enable colleagues to see examples of good/successful practice for the funders' current schemes.
Sensitive information such as named personnel and salary details have been redacted, however if you would like to discuss specific application schemes or reach out to colleagues with a view to establishing collaborations, please contact the research services team at the email address below and they will make the necessary introductions between you and the principal investigator. Please be mindful that research services colleagues are facilitating these contacts and may not be able answer specific grant-related queries directly; but they will endeavour to address these questions through consultation.
This workflow diagram [pdf] illustrates the process from award notification to upload to the repository pages.
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Fellowships
The following examples of successful fellowship applications represent a variety of fellowship schemes (intermediate level and above for both basic science and clinical schemes as well as clinical PhD awards). These have been subdivided by funder and award values (below/above £500,000).
Further examples will follow in due course as awards are received and we intend to keep the material contemporaneous with funders' current schemes.
This resource should be used in parallel to working closely with the Faculty Fellowship Academy (email: FBMHfellowshipacademy@manchester.ac.uk) during the development of your fellowship proposal.
UK Government funding bodies (inclusive of NIHR)
NIHR
£0-500,000
- Optimising Diagnostic Efficiency in the Emergency Department by Using Advanced Machine Learning Methods to Update and Personalise a Contemporary Clinical Prediction Model for Early Identification and Exclusion of Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Senior Investigator Award
- Telemedicine as a Treatment for Deaf People with Common Mental Healh Problems who use British Sign Language: a mixed methods feasibility study
Innovate UK TSB
Examples coming soon
UKRI
BBSRC
Examples coming soon
MRC
£0-500,000
- Is kynurenine pathway manipulation a novel therapeutic strategy for ameliorating features of pre-eclampsia (Total Costs Fellowship)
- Health Economic Skills for Advancing Health Policy: Capturing Effects of Prevention and Intervention Beyond Traditional Health Services (Skills Development Fellowship)
- Delineating the cell intrinsic mechanisms of peripheral nerve regeneration (Total Costs Fellowship)
£500,000-1m
- Methylation of mRNA as a Coupling Mechanism Betweeen Diet, Metabolism and the Circadian Clock (Future Leaders Fellowships)
- Resolving a novel brain circuit controlling appetite and body weight (Career development award)
>£1m
- Mechanisms underlying neuronal microglia interactions during development in health and disease (Career development award)
ESRC
Examples coming soon
EPSRC
Examples coming soon
Research Grants
The examples of successful applications below relate to a variety of response mode/project grant schemes across our portfolio of funders.
UK Government funding bodies (inclusive of NIHR)
NIHR
£0-500,000
- How Effective and Cost-effective is Water Flouridation for Adults? A 10-year Retrospective Cohort Study (Public Health Research Programme)
- Feasibility and acceptability of TOOTHPICKS, a behaviour change intervention to support parent-dental practitioner communication about behaviour change to improve oral health in children (Research for Patient Benefit programme)
£500,000-1m
- Understanding the Scale and Nature of Avoidable Harm in Prison Healthcare (Policy Research Programme)
>£1m
- The Prevention Of Suicide Behaviour in Prison: Enhancing Access to Therapy (PROSPECT) Programme (Programme Grants for Applied Research)
- Development and Validation of a Risk Assessment Tool for Self-Harm in Prisoners (Health Technology Assessment Programme)
Innovate UK TSB
£500,000-1m
UKRI
BBSRC
£0-500,000
- Developing ultra correlative tags for functional studies employing light and electron microscopy [Tools and resources development fund]
- Guided activation as a model for transcription factor networks determining cell fate [Standard grants]
Industrial Partnership Awards (IPA’s)
(see also this helpful video)
Examples coming soon
MRC
£0-500,000
- A Cell Atlas of the Human Outflow Tract of the Heart (Standard grants)
- HOD2: Toward Holistic Approaches to Clinical Prediction of Multi-Morbidity: A Dynamic Synergy of Inter-Connected Risk Models
- Routinely Embedding Recruitment and Retention Interventions within Randomised Controlled Trials (Standard grants)
£500,000-1m
- University of Cape Town: Etiological, Intervention and Outcome Studies in African Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Heart Disease (African Research Leaders)
- Controls of Blood Cell Emergence by YAP and Environmental Cues (Standard grants)
- The microbiome drives circadian rhythms in inflammation (Standard grants)
>£1m
- Understanding the Consequences of Recreational Noise Exposure (Standard grants)
ESRC
Examples coming soon
EPSRC
£500,000-1m
- Civic Data Identity Partnership (Digital Economy Investigator-led Research Projects)
>£1m
- BioProton: Biologically Relevant Dose for Proton Therapy Planning (Healthcare Technologies: Investigator-led Research)
UK Charity
Wellcome
£0-500,000
- The Animal Research Nexus: Changing Constitutions of Science, Health and Welfare, Research Enrichment, Public Engagement (Research Enrichment)
>£1m
- Academic DNA-Encoded Library Resource (Biomedical Resources Grant)
BHF
£0-500,000
- The Role of Alternans in Generating Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure; a Mechanistic Study to Understand the Importance of Remodelled Ca Handling (Project Grants)
CRUK
£0-500,000
Leverhulme
Examples coming soon
Rosetrees Trust
£0-500,000
- Investigating the Relationship Between Differences in Blood Vessel Growth in the Placenta and Placental (Project Grant)
Academy of Medical Sciences
£0-500,000
- Applying genomic technologies to understand adipose inflammation (Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers)
Other funding bodies
EU
>£1m
- Metformin impact on maternal and infant cardiometabolic health (Consolidator Award)
NC3Rs
£0-500,000
- Replacing the Need for Patient-Derived Xenografts and Matrigel Organoid Culture as Preclinical Models for Breast Cancer (Skills and Knowledge Transfer)
Studentships
The following examples relate to externally funded PhD studentships which have been awarded across our portfolio of funders.
Our Doctoral Training Programmes are not listed in this section but more information can be obtained by visiting the Faculty Doctoral Academy website and Manchester Doctoral College. Details of specific schemes within FBMH can be found on the PGR Funding section of BMH Staffnet. You can also contact the Doctoral Academy (FBMH) via email.