Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Closes 2026-11-01. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/collaborate-with-the-uk-human-functional-genomics-initiative/

Apply for an Academic and Industry Partnership award as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative’s (FGx) Innovation and Collaboration fund. The awards will enable the development of links between industrial partners and the FGx.

These awards can be used to support feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.

You must be based at a UK research organisation to be eligible for this funding.

What we're looking for Scope

The projects should build and strengthen collaborations across the Initiative and the UK through feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.

Areas of potential interest include (but are not limited to):

- generation of novel functional genomic annotations in disease-relevant cell types

- development of novel methods, functional perturbation of disease systems

- development of models for functional genomics, data science and computational approaches for functional genomics

Technology priming projects that support the initiative, functional genomics screening lab or a specific research cluster are welcome.

Projects that offer to bring in specific knowledge or contributions to the initiative are encouraged.

What we will fund

This grant may be used to support the following:

- direct project costs: 100% directly incurred and directly allocated project costs can be claimed, including staff time, travel and subsistence on the individual feasibility or pilot projects

- costs of networking activities, including travel…