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The Wellcome Trust  
(Funding Changes)		 The Wellcome Trust supports biomedical research and the medical humanities, with the aim of improving human and animal health. The Trust offers a wide variety of funding schemes, including Investigator Awards, fellowships and Strategic Awards, and also supports several major initiatives.  The new Investigator Award Scheme offers fellowship support to researchers who are salaried by their university or research institute.  Please view further details and upcoming deadlines.
Cancer Research UK
(£315 million in 2006/07)		 Cancer Research UK is dedicated to cancer research and supports researchers through a variety of funding mechanisms including research institutes, clinical centres, programme and project grants.
Action Medical Research Supports a broad spectrum of research with the objective of preventing disease and disability and alleviating physical disability. However, it doesn’t support cancer, cardiovascular and HIV/AIDS research. Emphasis is on clinical research or research at the interface between clinical and basic science. From 2009, research should focus on child health to include problems affecting pregnancy, childbirth, babies, children and young adults.
British Heart Foundation
(ca. £40M)		 Supports pioneering, vital research into the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and circulation.
Heart Research UK Focuses on funding innovative, pioneering research and often supports young researchers on their first steps into heart research. Funding programmes include: Novel and Emerging Technologies Grant; Young Researcher Travel Scholarships; Healthy Heart Grants; Clinical Grants; and Basic Science grants.
Leukaemia Research Fund
(£22.5M/year)		 Dedicated exclusively to funding research into all blood cancers. Supports a wide range of projects from basic laboratory research through to clinical trials in patients.
Breast Cancer Campaign Funds breast cancer research UK wide.
Diabetic UK
(£7M in 2008)		 Funds diabetic research in the UK. Research opportunities exist within the three key areas: Care and treatment, Cause and prevention, and Cure.
Help the Aged
(£3M/year)		 Funds research on a wide range of issues from social policy to biomedical science.
The Stroke Association
(£2.5M/year)		 Supports and promotes research into stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and long-term care. Research Project and Programme Grants are awarded to Doctors, Professors, Research Fellows, Therapists, Psychologists and Nurses at universities and hospitals across the UK.
British Lung Foundation
(ca. £1M/year)		 Funds research into understanding, treating and preventing lung disease.
Kidney Research UK
(£900k in 2008)		 Is dedicated to improving the understanding of kidney disease, its causes, treatment and management through funding research. Funds Research Project & Start-up Grants (open calls), Senior Fellowships, Training Fellowships and Studentships.
Alzheimer’s Research Trust   Supports scientific and medical research to make progress towards a treatment that will cure or prevent Alzheimer’s and related diseases.
Arthritis Research Campaign Funds research into arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases in the UK.
BUPA Foundation Funds a range of medical research projects in the following areas:  mental health in older people; health at work; surgery; preventive health (projects covering all health environments from epidemiology to health maintenance); information and communication (projects designed to enhance the partnership between medical professionals and the public/patients).
Meningitis Research Foundation Funds research to prevent meningitis and septicaemia, and to improve survival rates and outcomes.
The Mental Health Foundation Funds innovative research into the care and treatment of mental illness and mental health promotion.
National Osteoporosis Society
(£250k in 2008)		 Supports clinical research into osteoporosis.
Wellbeing of Women
(£1M in 2008)		 Funds research into three areas: Gynaecological Cancers; Pregnancy and Birth, including pre-term birth, miscarriage and fertility; and Quality of Life issues, including menopause, incontinence and prolapse, sexual health, menstrual disorders and endometriosis.


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