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MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round five: outline application

🇬🇧 United Kingdom·Medical Research Council (MRC)(Government)
Funding
up to £26.3M
≈ ₩45.9B (FX as of 2026-07-01)
Deadline
2027.02.03
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Overview

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Funding type: Grant · Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC)

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Category
R&D
Industry
Bio & Healthcare
Technology
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Target stage
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Project duration
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Estimated preparation
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Funding

Award size and how it is paid

Award range
up to £26.3M
Currency
GBP
Total programme budget
£50M
Support type
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Co-funding
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Matching fund
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Disbursement
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Note
Maximum award: £26,250,000 / Total fund: £50,000,000

Eligibility

Can we actually apply?

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This opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility. Check if your organisation is eligible . Who is eligible to apply To be eligible to apply for MRC CoRE funding, you must: • show that you will direct the project or be actively engaged in the work • have the relevant expertise and experience to lead or contribute to an MRC CoRE and its research culture • focus your application on tackling complex and multi or interdisciplinary health challenges • at the outline application stage, be a member of the proposed MRC CoRE leadership team The leadership team should have the relevant expertise and experience to lead or contribute to an MRC CoRE and support its research culture. The team can be from a single eligible organisation or a partnership of eligible organisations. Due to the long duration of MRC CoREs you do not require a contract for the full duration of the award. By submitting the application, the research organisation is confirming its support for the named applicants, that they are capable of leading the MRC CoRE, and it will accept its relevant terms and conditions. Demand management An organisation may lead one outline application in round five that addresses a challenge across any part of MRC remit. Applications from existing MRC units may be submitted in addition to other applications from the organisation and do not count towards the lead organisation limits. Organisations may freely participate as a partner in applications led from other organisations. Who is not eligible to apply If you are employed by these organisations you cannot apply as project lead or project co-lead, but can participate as project partners on an application led by an eligible UK organisation: • businesses • charity and third sector organisations • international research organisations This does not include MRC Unit The Gambia or MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, employees of these organisations are eligible to apply as project lead or project co-lead. International researchers While international organisations cannot lead an application, it is possible for international researchers to apply as part of the leadership team, as an international co-project lead. We expect international co-leads to make a major intellectual contribution to the design or conduct of the project and to provide clear indicators of commitment to the MRC CoRE. The contribution and added value to the research collaboration should be

Company age
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Employees
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Revenue limits
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Consortium
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Location Requirements

Geography and legal-entity conditions

Primary country
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Also eligible
None
Foreign companies
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Local entity
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Location condition
영국 소재 기관·기업(또는 영국 파트너와의 협업)이 일반적으로 요구됩니다(원문 확인 필요).

Required Documents

Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions

Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.

Application Process

How you apply

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Evaluation

Review process and criteria

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Timeline

Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution

Process steps were not captured.

Equity & Financial Terms

Equity, loans and contract conditions

Equity required
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Loan
Non-dilutive grant
Duplicate funding
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Exclusivity
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Right of first refusal
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Audit & settlement
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Risk Intelligence

Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)

Overall: Not assessable (insufficient data)
Eligibility risk33

Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules

Financial risk20

Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure

Execution risk22

Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties

Contract risk27

Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits

IP & idea exposure riskNeeds verification

How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it

Key risk factors
  • 10
    Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification

    The list of required documents was not collected.

  • 8
    Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.

  • 8
    Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification

    Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.

  • 7
    Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.

  • 7
    Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Duplicate-support rule not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether parallel support is allowed has to be confirmed.

14 item(s) need verification
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).

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IP / Idea Protection

How much of your technology and idea you must disclose

Required documents unknown

The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Medical Research Council (MRC). 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.

NDA
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Data rights
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Disclosure depth
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File patent first?
Not applicable
Reuse of submissions
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Publicity obligation
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Exposure score
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Safe to disclose
  • · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
  • · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
  • · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
  • · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
  • · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
Keep to a minimum
  • · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
  • · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
  • · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
  • · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
  • · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
  • · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
Recommended actions
  • MEDIUMRequest an NDA

    Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.

4 evidence item(s) from the source
  • UNKNOWN

    No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    No NDA clause could be found.

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  • UNKNOWN

    IP ownership terms could not be found.

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  • UNKNOWN

    Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.

    Source link
Needs verification (8)
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).

This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 4d ago

AI Analysis

Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness

Preparation difficultyNeeds verification

From paperwork and review stages

Competition (estimate)61

Heuristic from award size and type

Attractiveness72

Amount, terms and IP combined

Overall riskNeeds verification

Weighted average of five dimensions

Pros
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Cons
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Cautions
  • Nothing flagged

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Last fetched
2026.09.14
Human review
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First seen
2026.08.27
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Snapshot history
  • · 2026.08.27 — 최초 수집 (01b4e761)