Funding Call
Status open
Notification of intent: Transdisciplinary research to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Scope
This flagship initiative is an opportunity to better understand, detect, and disrupt the emergence of AMR in animals, humans, and plants using One Health and Planetary Health approaches. It aims to reduce, replace, optimise, improve access to and innovate the use of antimicrobials by supporting transdisciplinary research that will improve our understanding of and provide new opportunities to prevent and combat AMR.
Resistance by all microbes is within the scope of this funding opportunity, including:
- bacteria
- viruses
- fungi and oomycetes
- protozoa and helminth
Resistance within and between all reservoirs of AMR are within the scope of this funding opportunity, including:
- humans
- animals (includes aquaculture, companion, farmed and wild)
- plants (including trees)
- natural environments including, for example, soil, water, waterways
- human-made environments, such as health and care facilities, veterinary facilities, farm buildings, abattoirs, glasshouses and vertical farms, sewage systems and waste streams
- the food chain
Applications that are not pathogen, disease, or host specific, for example, developing new modelling approaches, pathway design, analytics and data requirements are also in scope. Such projects should be well characterised and demonstrate applicability beyond the study system. Applications may also explore the role of culture, human behaviour, history, linguistics and communication, and other humanities and social sciences in understanding, detecting and disrupting AMR.
Apply
Stage one: Notification of intent
There is a mandatory notification of intent (NoI) stage for this UKRI funding opportunity.
To submit an NoI, fill in this form by 18 June 2025 at 4:00pm UK time. If a full application is submitted without a prior NoI by the stated deadline, it will be rejected.
The NoI form requests details of the proposed research projects team and a summary of the research project application. This information will not be assessed but will be used to inform plans for the assessment panel. Nothing provided as part of the NoI step is considered finalised, therefore additional partners and project co-leads may be added at a later stage, and the application may change significantly as further details are prepared.
You will receive an automated email acknowledgement once you have submitted your NoI.
Feedback will not be given for the NoI, unless we have concerns regarding the fit to the funding opportunity scope and level of transdisciplinarity.
Stage two: full application
We are running this funding opportunity on the new UKRI Funding Service so please ensure that your organisation is registered. You cannot apply on the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system. We will publish full details on how to apply when the funding opportunity opens.
The full opportunity will open on this page on 18 June 2025 and close on 23 September 2025.
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