Pre-announcement: Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder
Overview
What you need to judge this in 30 seconds
Funding type: Grant · Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC) , Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , UK Research and Innovation
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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 £3M
- Currency
- GBP
- Total programme budget
- £10M
- Support type
- Needs verification
- Co-funding
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- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
- Maximum award: £3,000,000 / Total fund: £10,000,000
Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
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 this funding opportunity you must: • show that you will direct the project and be actively engaged in the work • be looking to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease If you do not have a contract of employment for the duration of the proposed project, by submitting an application the research organisation is confirming that, if it is successful: • contracts will be extended beyond the end date of the project • all necessary support for you and the project will be provided, including mentorship and career development for early career researchers New investigator applicants We welcome applications from early career researchers. The new investigator award is aimed at researchers who are capable of becoming independent researchers and who are now ready to take the next step towards that goal. If you are applying for this funding opportunity as a ‘new investigator’, you must also: • have your research organisation support • be able to demonstrate that your skills and experience at the time of your application match those of the ‘transition to independence’ career stage, as set out in the MRC skills and experience table • use this grant to support your long-term career goals and chosen career route • be able to demonstrate you are the sole intellectual leader of the application and the proposed work If you meet the eligibility criteria, you can also apply as a new investigator, if you: • are employed as a postdoctoral research assistant, although this grant cannot start until your current work finishes • hold a lecturer appointment, a junior fellowship or another research staff position • hold, or have held, an early career training fellowship such as a MRC skills development fellowship • do not have a contract with your chosen host organisation • are not currently based at the eligible research organisation that has agreed to host your new investigator award • are either a non-clinical or clinically active researcher • have any number of years of experience Who is not eligible to apply as a new investigator You are not eligible to apply if you have already achieved independence. New investigator awards support individuals who have not previously led a research team or been awarded a substantial grant as fellow or project lead (formally known as principal investigator). A su
- 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
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- 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
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules
Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure
Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties
Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits
How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it
- 10Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification
The list of required documents was not collected.
- 8Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification
The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.
- 8Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification
Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.
- 7Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.
- 7Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification
Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.
- 6Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification
Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.
- 6Duplicate-support rule not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether parallel support is allowed has to be confirmed.
- · 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
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
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Data rights
- Needs verification
- Disclosure depth
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- File patent first?
- Not applicable
- Reuse of submissions
- Needs verification
- Publicity obligation
- Needs verification
- Exposure score
- Needs verification
- · 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
- · 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
- 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
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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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IP ownership terms could not be found.
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Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.
Source link
- · 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 · 1d ago
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
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Source & Provenance
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- Official URL
- https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/experimental-medicine-to-define-mechanisms-of-gambling-disorder/
- Application URL
- https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/experimental-medicine-to-define-mechanisms-of-gambling-disorder/
- Last fetched
- 2026.08.25
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.20
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
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