List of Major UK Research Funders

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Major funders of research in the UK

Set out below is a list of the correct titles of the major UK research funders. This has been
compiled as a complement to the RIN’s guidance on acknowledgement of funders in
scholarly journal articles (see in particular paragraph 12 of the full guidance document),
especially in order to help publishers’ copy-editors achieve consistency.

Research Councils
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Arts and Humanities Research Board to 2005)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (to 2007)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council
Medical Research Council
Natural Environment Research Council
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (to 2007)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (from 2007)

Academies
British Academy
Royal Academy of Engineering
Royal Society

Major Medical Research Charities (see also, at Appendix below, the full list of members of
the Association of Medical Research Charities)
Arthritis Research Campaign
British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research UK
Wellcome Trust

Other Research Charities


Leverhulme Trust
Nuffield Foundation

Miscellaneous
JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee

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Members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)

Action Medical Research


Action on Addiction
Alcohol & Education Research Council
Alzheimer's Research Trust
Alzheimer's Society
Arthritis Research Campaign
Association for International Cancer Research
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Asthma UK
Ataxia UK
Ataxia-Telangiectasia Society
BackCare
Bardhan Research and Education Trust of Rotherham
Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research
Blackie Foundation Trust
Blond McIndoe Research Foundation
Brain Research Trust
Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Campaign
British Council for Prevention of Blindness
British Heart Foundation
British Liver Trust
British Lung Foundation
British Neurological Research Trust
British Occupational Health Research Foundation
British Pain Society
British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society
British Sjögren's Syndrome Association
British Skin Foundation
BUPA Foundation
Cancer Research UK
CFS Research Foundation
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland
Children with Leukaemia
Children's Liver Disease Foundation
Chronic Disease Research Foundation
Chronic Granulomatous Disorder Research Trust
Circulation Foundation
Core (The Digestive Disorders Foundation)
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Deafness Research UK
DEBRA
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Diabetes UK
Dunhill Medical Trust
EMF Biological Research Trust
Epilepsy Research UK
Fight for Sight
Foundation for Liver Research
Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
Healing Foundation
Heart Research UK
Huntington's Disease Association
Hypertension Trust
Inspire Foundation
International Spinal Research Trust
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Kidney Research UK
Kids Kidney Research
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Little Foundation
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Marie Curie Research Institute
Mason Medical Research Foundation
Medical Research Scotland
Meningitis Research Foundation
Meningitis Trust
Meningitis UK
Migraine Trust
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
National Association for Colitis & Crohn's Disease
National Eye Research Centre
National Osteoporosis Society
Neuro-Disability Research Trust
North West Cancer Research Fund
Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke Association
Northern Ireland Leukaemia Research Fund
Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation
Nuffield Foundation
Ovarian Cancer Action
Parkinson's Disease Society of the UK
PBC Foundation (UK) Ltd
Primary Immunodeficiency Association
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association
Prostate Cancer Research Foundation
Psoriasis Association
Remedi
Research into Ageing
Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust
Society for Endocrinology
SPARKS - The Children’s Medical Research Charity
St Peter's Trust for Kidney, Bladder & Prostate Research
Stroke Association, The
Tenovus
Tommy's The Baby Charity
Tuberous Sclerosis Association
Ulster Cancer Foundation
Wellbeing of Women
WellChild Trust
Wellcome Trust
Wessex Medical Trust
William Harvey Research Foundation
World Cancer Research Fund

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