Key information
The Kidney Research UK-Stoneygate jointly funded round in honour of Professor Mike Nicholson’s dedication to developing new and innovative approaches to kidney transplantation, and in recognition of the urgent need to decrease waiting times and improve the outcomes for those who need a donor kidney.
Transforming transplantation research
We are delighted to continue offering these awards this year and we welcome proposals from researchers based across the whole of the UK aiming to improve outcomes for the kidney patients community and build expertise in renal transplantation.
It is an exciting time for transplantation research with significant breakthroughs taking place, and we are now seeking applications from researchers who can help us achieve even greater impact by accelerating research progress and innovation and researchers focusing on kidney transplantation.
We wish to increase the number of researchers by:
- Build capacity into kidney research and into kidney transplant teams to accelerate discoveries and develop outstanding leaders in kidney transplant research.
- Attracting and retaining young surgeons to pursue an academic transplant research career in renal transplantation
- Attracting new and diverse people into kidney transplant research, including early career researchers, who have potential to be the leaders of future developments.
We are seeking applications that will help our ambitions to:
- Accelerate discoveries and develop outstanding leaders in kidney transplant research
- Make kidney transplants last longer and build stronger defences against infections and other diseases that can lead to transplant failure
- Increase the availability of kidneys for transplantation and reduce the wait.
- Develop novel machine perfusion techniques that have the capacity to increase organ utilisation rates and deliver pre-transplant regenerative therapies that prolong transplant survival.
Types of grants available
We welcome applications for the following grant types:
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All submissions to this call will be subject to expert review involving members of our research grants committee and lay advisory group and both scientific and lay external reviewers. Information about the expert review process.
All lead applicants must be resident in the United Kingdom and the research must be led from a UK establishment.
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Application info
We encourage applications from those who seek initial or further support to establish their research career, and investigators who have not previously held competitively awarded project or start-up funding as a principle investigator.
All submissions to this call will be subject to expert review involving members of our College of Experts having both scientific and lay external reviewers. Get more information about the expert review process.
All lead applicants must be resident in the United Kingdom and the research must be led from a UK establishment.
If you have a question or would like further information contact: research@kidneyresearchuk.org
Application key dates
Opens for applications: 1 October 2026
Closing date: 11 November 2026
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