Research noticeboard
Full of useful reminders of grant deadlines, conferences and workshops, this is your go-to page for important information to progress your research.
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Funding calls
Cystic Fibrosis Trust funding schemes
- Venture and Innovation Award: OPEN We agree VIA funding in principle prior to submission of external funding body applications.
- Strategic Research Centres: ClOSED
- Development Awards: CLOSED
- Summer Studentships: CLOSED
For more information on the Trust's funding schemes, see our Apply for Funding page.
Other funding schemes
- NIHR rolling call for proposals that address research priorities, including the CF refreshed research priorities
For more information see below.
NIHR rolling call for proposals that address research priorities
The NIHR have a rolling call for proposals that address research priorities identified through a JLA priority setting partnership, through the following NIHR programmes:
- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME)
- Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HDR)
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
- Public Health Research (PHR)
The programmes are interested in receiving high-quality applications which research priorities. Proposals must be within the remit of these programmes, and may span the remit of more than one.
More information on the recently refreshed CF research priorities can be found on www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/researchpriorities .
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Events
If you are a Trust-funded researcher, please let us know if you are presenting your research at a conference, by contacting us on [email protected] .
The following events may be of interest to researchers working in the field of cystic fibrosis.
Coffee and careers webinars
Our ‘Coffee and Careers’ webinar series is designed to give early career researchers (ECRs) the opportunity to hear from more senior researchers working in CF research about key decisions, advice, and pitfalls in their careers so far.
The next webinar will be a conversation with Prof Jo Fothergill, on Friday 2 May at 11am. Registration is open now.
Find out more about Cystic Fibrosis Trust events
ECFS Basic Science conference -
The 2025 conference took place in March. Spring 2026 date and venue tbc
ECFS Conference - 4-7 June 2025, Milan, Italy
The abstract submission deadline has now passed and registration is now open. More information is available on the ECFS website.
North American CF Conference (NACFC)
This annual meeting brings together scientists, clinicians, and caregivers from around the world to discuss and share ideas on the latest advances in CF research, care, and drug development and to exchange ideas about ways to improve the health and quality of life for people with CF.
NACFC 2025 will take place 23-25 October in Seattle.
NACFC 2024 took take place 26-28 September in Boston
Many of the talks from NACFC 2024 are available to watch again on the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's NACFC YouTube channel.
Please let us know of any Trust-funded research that has been accepted for presentation at the conference, by contacting us on [email protected] thank you.
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CF Registries
Researchers can apply to access data from UK CF Registry and European CF Society Patient Registry. Find out more information on the data available, the application process and the fees to access the data.
UK CF Registry
The UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry is a secure centralised database, sponsored and managed by Cystic Fibrosis Trust. It records health data on consenting people with cystic fibrosis (CF) in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The UK CF Registry sends annual data to the ECFS Patient Registry.
Researchers from recognised institutions can apply for access to aggregated, anonymised, or pseudonymised data from the UK CF Registry to perform their own analysis for the benefit of people with cystic fibrosis.
Registry fees: While the UK CF Registry does not charge for the use of data, it must recoup costs of data handling (including extract and cleaning), project management, and analysis (where applicable) on behalf of third parties.
There is an expectation that non-commercial research use of UK CF Registry data will be grant funded, and that such a grant will incorporate the current UK CF Registry costs. For current information on fees, or support with costing your grant application, please contact [email protected]
European CF Society Patient Registry
The European Cystic Fibrosis Society Patient Registry collects demographic and clinical data from consenting people with CF in Europe. The Registry’s database includes data from more than 56,000 people with CF, from 42 participating countries and longitudinal data from 2011 to 2023.
The information is used to measure, survey and compare aspects of CF and its treatment in participating countries, to deepen our understanding of CF, to improve standards of care, to provide data for epidemiological research and to facilitate public health planning.
The Registry encourages the use of these important data for scientific research and welcome applications for data. Data applications will be subject to a fee depending on the nature and source of the request. More information on data requests is available on ECFS Patient Registry website.
If you would like us to help you promote funding deadlines, meetings or awards please email us on [email protected].
Research we fund
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What is CF?
Cystic fibrosis, or CF, affects the lungs, digestive system and other organs. There are around 11,000 people living with it in the UK.
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