Funding call

Apply for funding to develop or improve drugs or plant protection agents to help:

  • treat bacterial or fungal infections
  • reduce the spread of resistance to drugs.

You should:

  • be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding
  • apply as part of a consortium of transnational partners.

Your project should involve either:

  • licensed antibiotics or antifungals
  • agents in pre-clinical or early clinical development.

It could aim to:

  • improve efficacy or specificity
  • repurpose existing interventions
  • optimise combinations of drugs or plant protection agents
  • design and implement:
    • new strategies
    • innovative tools, including novel chemistry and new materials.

Deadline: 8 March 2022 (11AM GMT)