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Internal research funding opportunities managed and distributed by UCL departments.
Current/ongoing funding opportunities
UCL Neuroscience - Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) Collaboration
- Round 3 2025 | UCL Deadline: 1 December
Scope
The UCL Neuroscience Domain and Neuroscience Centre Zurich (ZNZ) are offering short-term seed funding to support collaborative neuroscience research or networking initiatives. These awards are designed to support larger-scale applications for external research funding.
Funding may be used to generate preliminary data, support research staff, facilitate postgraduate exchanges, or enable short-term visits by group leaders to the partner institution. It can also cover essential research consumables. Alternatively, awards may support the organisation of seminars, workshops, symposia, or other events that promote collaboration through the exchange of knowledge and expertise.
Applications require at least 1 group leader affiliated with UCL Neuroscience and at least 1 group leader affiliated with ZNZ.
Details
- Funding: £20,000 or CHF equivalent (currently circa CHF 21,800)
- Number of applications allowed: 1 per group leader/team
- Duration: 1 year
- Intention to submit deadline: 4pm, 31 October 2025
- Full application deadline: 4pm, 1 December 2025
Further information and how to apply
Applicants should first submit an Intention to Submit via MS Forms by the specified deadline. This should include the names of the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator(s), along with the selected funding category.
Once this has been submitted, the completed application form (see ‘Supporting Documents’ below) should be emailed with the subject line ‘UCL Zurich Funding Call 2025’ to Dr Ruth Wainman at r.wainman@ucl.ac.uk and Dr Wolfgang Knecht at wknecht@neuroscience.uzh.ch by the full application deadline.
Supporting documents
Translational Funding
The UCL Translational Research Office (TRO) offer a number of translational funding opportunities available to UCL and partner researchers. The TRO offers funding that differs from standard project grants by being milestone-driven with clear decision criteria that require active project management.
Find out more about Translational Funding opportunities
UCL Public Engagement Funding
UCL Public Engagement Funding equips UCL researchers with the means to put their public engagement ideas into practice. Grants are available for various stages of your academic career, and the UCL Public Engagement Team also provide advice and support on applying for external funding.
Find out more about UCL Public Engagement Funding opportunities
Other funding opportunities
Funding opportunities subject to internal review prior to submission
Equipment funding opportunities – internal & external
Closed calls (for information)
- Excellence Fellowships
The UCL Excellence Fellowships programme recruits exceptional early career clinical and non-clinical researchers to help them establish their independent career and become the research leaders of the future by providing salary, research funding and academic support. This programme is overseen by SLMS leadership and managed by the SLMS Research Coordination Office.
- 2024 Neuroscience Careers Network Post Doctoral Development Fund
Scope
This call is designed to provide neuroscience researchers with an opportunity to develop novel ideas and generate preliminary data to support larger-scale applications for external research funding.
Details
Funding: £5,000 per award
Duration: 12 months
Start Date: 1st April
UCL internal deadline: 1st March, 10am
Eligibility
Funded applicants must provide a brief report on their research project within 1 month of completion of the award, summarising current and projected outputs of the grant and next funding stage. Funded applicants must obtain confirmation from their group leader that they will have the necessary time to undertake the proposed research project.Supporting documents
- Capital Equipment Fund Call
Capital Equipment Fund Call for researchers in the faculties of Life and Medical Sciences (LMS)
Scope
This funding is intended to support purchase of strategically important research capital equipment. Lead applicants must be based within the UCL faculties of Life, Brain, Population Health and Medical Sciences (LMS). We expect many of the successful applications to be for major equipment that will be managed within multi-user facilities such as the UCL Science Technology Platforms or within other existing multi-user facilities.
Applications are expected to be in excess of £50k. Awards will support equipment purchase, installation, shipping and standard warranties. Ineligible costs include (but are not limited to) extended warranties, training, consumables, service/maintenance contracts, staff and estates costs. All equipment purchased through CEF6 must be on site no later than 31st July 2024. Any equipment delivered after this date cannot be funded by CEF6.
The CEF scheme is intended to complement other schemes, such as MRC-Equip or BBSRC ALERT, that provide funds for the purchase of strategically important equipment. Applicants may be encouraged to apply for external funding in the first instance.
Applications will be assessed through a process of internal review and ranking by STP Academic Leads followed by review and prioritisation by the Vice-Deans Research for the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences.
We encourage Divisions and Institutes to submit their internal rankings by Thursday 7th September.
For Financial Year 2023/24, we will run one call for applications for equipment funding.
Important Dates
CEF6 timeline:- Deadline to contact STP Academic Lead (if applicable) - Friday 14th July 2023
- Deadline for applications and divisional rankings - Thursday 7th September 2023
- Award outcome announcement - End of November 2023
- Equipment delivery deadline - Wednesday 31st July 2024
- WEISS Health Challenge 2020
The WEISS Health Challenge is open to doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and commissioners involved in healthcare at UCL-affiliated institutions and working in the following areas of surgery/intervention: anaesthetics, cardiac and vascular, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal, neurosurgical/CNS, paediatric, radiology, urological, women’s health.
WEISS researchers will help you develop a solution to your challenge, working in partnership with you to make sure the new technology, device, or innovation will really work for you, your colleagues and your patients. We expect to fund 3-5 awards for this call, with the following possible outcomes:
50% WEISS funded fellowship at ST level 3-7, estimated at £40,000 per annum Pump-prime award, up to £20,000 per project PPI support, up to £2,000 per projectDeadline: 15 January 2020
Contact: Dr Dimitris Siasakos (d.siasakos@ucl.ac.uk)For further guidance and to apply, visit the WEISS website
- WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships 2020
The WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships have been created to help develop new collaborations between academic clinicians at UCL Partner Hospitals and WEISS principal investigators. Each fellow can help develop new ideas whilst expanding their own research interests; they will also help bridge the gap between clinicians and engineers to help each understand the other better.
Five fellowships are available and applications are open to all consultants and trainees in their final two years of SpR training at any UCL Partner Hospital. WEISS will offer funding support of up to £13,000 per annum to each successful candidate for relevant projects or attendance at meetings.
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Contact: Dr Su-Lin Lee (su-lin.lee@ucl.ac.uk)
- Early Career Neuroscience Prize
Each year the UCL Neuroscience Domain presents the Early Career Neuroscience Prize to two UCL neuroscientists. The prize aims to recognise outstanding work published in the past year by early-career UCL neuroscientists in any field of neuroscience, and is awarded in two categories; junior scientist and advanced scientist.
- UCL Global Health Grand Challenge: Health Systems initiative
Up to £2,500 for proposals that use a cross-disciplinary approach to investigate the ways in which Health Systems can ensure that medical advances are translated into significant gains for effective and equitable healthcare.
Deadline: 3 December 2018