Incubator for Pharmacy Professionals
Aims to increase the capacity of pharmacy professionals working in all sectors to become involved in healthcare research.
The Incubator will develop and implement across the UK, strategies tailored to the needs of pharmacy professionals to increase research capacity.
Latest Opportunities
NIHR BMBR Programme Researcher-led
This aims to improve efficiency, quality and impact across biomedical, health and care-related research within the MRC and NIHR remit. The programme supports methodology research that develops and delivers ways to improve the research methods used by others.
Deadline: 01-Dec-26
Breast Cancer Now – Equity and Wellbeing scheme
This scheme supports scientific excellence and innovative research that explores what helps people manage the physical and emotional impacts of breast cancer. Research funded by this scheme will lead to everyone getting the best care and support. This funding scheme focuses on inequities in breast cancer. It will support research that increases access and improves health by reducing variation in access and outcomes.
Deadline: 02-Dec-26
We are prioritising support that fills gaps in regard to improving access to and use of a range of modern contraceptive methods and wider sexual health and reproductive services.
Deadline: 07-Mar-27
The 2 deadlines for applications to the Sexual and Reproductive Health programme fall on the following dates every year: 7th March and 7th September.
The Waterloo Foundation (TWF) – World Development Programme: Nutrition – small grants
Under our Nutrition programme we want to increase the coverage of proven cost-effective fortification, biofortification and supplementation interventions to reduce micronutrient deficiencies in at-risk populations.
The 2 deadlines for applications to the Nutrition programme fall on the following dates every year: 7th March and 7th September.
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) – Early detection and diagnosis programme awards
This award funds long-term, integrated and potentially renewable programmes of exceptional science to drive forward a transformational change in how early cancers and pre-cancerous states are detected.
Deadline for outline application: 11-Mar-27
Call opens 19-Nov-26
Research is a core part of NHS business to improve patient health outcomes and advance pharmacy professional roles. Pharmacy is the third largest healthcare profession and yet under represented in health services research.
Launched in January 2024, the NIHR-supported Incubator for Pharmacy Professionals aims to understand and address the limited involvement of pharmacy professionals, including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across all sectors of pharmacy, in healthcare research. The Incubator will develop strategies to address the research deficit and introduce these strategies across the UK. We also endeavor to provide up to date information on available support, resources, and opportunities for pharmacy professionals to engage with research.
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This Incubator is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views expressed on this website/webpage are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
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The Incubator is a three-year project launched in 2024, with the aim of understand and address thelimited involvement of pharmacy professionals, including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians acrossall sectors of pharmacy, in healthcare research.