National child health research funding
13 Apr 2026, 2:31 p.m.
As the UK’s largest charitable funder of medical research dedicated to paediatrics, we’re excited to announce that we’re funding seven new research projects across the UK.
The projects will help us to better understand and improve outcomes for rare and complex child health conditions – from understanding how brain tumours connect with the brain to improve treatment, to developing personalised gene therapies for children with a severe muscle disease.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) has awarded over £2.2 million through our National Research Project Grant scheme.
Funding across the UK
The awarded projects come from organisations across the UK – the University of Manchester, University of Leeds, University of Cambridge and four different institutions across London.
In the past, this scheme has also funded projects in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Keele, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southampton and Warwick.
GOSH Charity is committed to funding the highest quality research that will have the greatest impact for seriously ill children, and so are increasingly funding nationally. The latest round of our Translational Research Accelerator Grants, Programme Grants, and our pilot Cancer Clinical Trial Fund were open to researchers across the UK.
Apply for funding
The next round of the National Research Project Grants are due to open in early May 2026.
If you would like to sign up to GOSH Charity research newsletter to hear when our funding calls are open, please email researchcomms@gosh.org.