Research funding calls

Humanimal Trust funds multidisciplinary research supporting the concept of One Medicine in the following areas: 

• Infection control and antimicrobial resistance
• Oncology 
• Musculoskeletal Disorders 
• Neurology and Neurosurgery 
• Regenerative medicine
• And potentially other projects, which support the concept of One Medicine including the phasing out of animal experiments

Would you like to build cross-sector collaborations, but your day-to-day job doesn’t allow for it? 

Our Connections Award recognises that opportunities to engage and develop partnerships to support One Medicine are limited. We hope that the call will support professionals and students to explore meaningful partnerships that can be built on, and, deliver impactful projects that benefit both human and animal healthcare.  

Humanimal Trust Connections Awards encourage the development of partnerships and collaboration between human and animal medical/health professionals in order to grow future projects that are relevant to One Medicine. Learning and knowledge exchange is central to the aims of the award, which is based on shared experience; an experience that has the potential to open possibilities for closer working and build on the recognition of the similarities between humans and animals as well as their differences. 

The £10,000 fund will be split between two projects. Please review the Connections Award application guidance below, and contact andrea@humanimaltrust.org.uk if you have any questions.  

If you would like to know more about previously funded applications, click here.  

All proposals must be aligned with the principles of the Charity and support the One Medicine concept (please, note this is different to One Health). For more information, please visit our website https://www.humanimaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are  

Connections Award Application – Professionals 

Please download and read the guidance document for professionals prior to completing the online application.  

All supporting documents, including the Connections Award Professional Costing template must be e-mailed to andrea@humanimaltrust.org.uk once your online application has been submitted.  

Click here to apply. 

Connections Award Application – Students 

Please download and read the guidance document for students prior to completing the online application. 

All supporting documents including the Connections Award Student Costing template must be e-mailed to andrea@humanimatrust.org.uk once your online application has been submitted. 

Click here to apply. 

The deadline for all Connections Award proposals is midnight on Monday 18 August 2025.

The aim of our Cancer Discovery Fund is to create collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships and projects that can change the landscape of cancer research.

Cancer does not discriminate between species. Approximately 1 in 4 dogs, 1 in 3 cats and as many as 1 in 2 humans will develop cancer during their lifetime[1].

Tumour biology, development and prognosis can be remarkably similar between humans and animals for some types of cancer. Humans and companion animals also live in the same environments and may share similar lifestyles. These and other factors open up huge opportunities for cross-discipline knowledge sharing and learning between human and veterinary researchers and clinicians in cancer research.

This call has been designed to harness spontaneous disease and encourage collaborative projects that aim to improve cancer diagnosis and understanding of cancer disease biology; develop new cancer treatments or improve existing treatments; and improve quality of life for humans and animals with cancer.

The Fund is up to £250,000 for a single project.

Are you a human or animal medical professional interested in building cross-sector collaborations, but your day-to-day job makes it hard?

Our Professional Connections Awards aim to support the development of partnerships and collaborations between a wide range of human and animal medical/health professionals in order to grow and deliver impactful projects that benefit both human and veterinary healthcare, and are relevant to One Medicine.

Learning and knowledge exchange is based on shared experience that has the potential to open possibilities for closer working and builds on the realisation of similarities as well as differences.

All proposals must be aligned with the principles of the charity (see https://www.humanimaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are) and support the aim of One Medicine (please note, this is different to One Health, visit https://www.humanimaltrust.org.uk/one-medicine to find out more about One Medicine).