Support for researchers

Are you a researcher with an interest in cystic fibrosis? We have a variety of research funding available, including:

• Our Strategic Research Centres, virtual centres of research excellence that are intended to create multidisciplinary teams to address questions of strategic relevance to people with cystic fibrosis. Deadline for expressions of interest is 11 May 2026.
• Our Venture and Innovation Awards, which support transformational and innovative research projects by providing financial support and bringing funding into the field of CF from external sources.
• Our Development Awards offer an opportunity to undertake preparatory work to develop future applications for further funding - for example to our Strategic Research Centre (SRC) programme or for fellowships schemes. Deadline for expressions of interest is 11 May 2026.
• Our Summer Studentships, which provide medical and basic science undergraduates with hands-on experience of research during the academic summer vacation. This scheme is now open for applications for summer 2026.

Our Research noticeboard includes details of funding schemes from other research funders. This includes the fellowships from Medical Research Council and NIHR where we have co-funding agreements in place:

• NIHR Predoctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowships (PCAF)

Apply for funding

Full of useful reminders of grant deadlines, conferences and workshops, this is your go-to page for important information to progress your research.

Visit the research noticeboard

The CF AMR Syndicate  brings industry leaders and people with CF together with academics with expertise in CF and lung infections, it is enabled and facilitated by the Trust, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) and LifeArc. For more information about the CF AMR Syndicate, joining the network and how to support its ongoing work, please visit the CF AMR Syndicate website.

Find out more about the CF AMR Syndicate

In November 2022 a list of 10 CF research priorities was published. These are the most important questions about cystic fibrosis chosen by the CF community.  Cystic Fibrosis Trust's research goals are based around the refreshed CF research priorities. 

Read the list of research priorities and how they were decided

If you are an innovator, our Research support offer can support you at every stage of your research pipeline, streamlining and simplifying the process.

Find out more about our Research support offer

Research workshops are a useful way of creating an environment, for experts outside of CF and established CF researchers, to explore ways of working together to crack a major problem. Previously we’ve run workshops on cancer and CF, understanding gut-related complications of CF and on clinical trials respectively.

Find research workshops