Creating impact through grant funding

Thank you for your interest in finding out more about our grant funding opportunities.
We offer a variety of grant programmes to support talented individuals and fund innovative projects to advance our understanding of eye health.
Alongside this, we support initiatives that promote staff development, wellbeing, and enhance patient experience at Moorfields, helping to ensure that patients get the best possible care.
Explore below how our funding makes a difference across three key areas.
Investing in people
- PhD studentships - enable training and support for early-stage researchers in their journey to become tomorrow’s leaders
- Research training fellowships - support clinical staff to carry out pre-clinical research towards a PhD
- Springboard awards - help researchers develop new ideas and take the next step in their academic careers
- Career development awards - support future leaders in eye research and clinical practice

Funding innovation
- Equipment grants - we fund state-of-the-art equipment that will support current and future research
- Innovation and improvement grants - enable staff to develop and test new ideas that will bring about positive change, improve clinical practice and enhance staff and patient experience
Supporting staff and patient experience
- Conference grants - help staff and researchers share knowledge and inspire others across the globe
- Publication support grants - support the dissemination of research outcomes by providing support towards publication or open access fees
- Event delivery grants - provide funding for meetings orevents that will support staff to share knowledge and enhance learning

Find out more
You can find out more about our programmes by visiting our programme pages via the link below.
Please note, some of our programmes accept applications by inviation only, and therefore may not be listed on our website.
If you don’t see the programme you are interested in on our website, please contact the grants and research team to find out more and to discuss your funding needs.
You can get in touch with us at moorfields.eyecharity.researchgrants@nhs.net