Chemistry

Studying the substances everything is made of, and creating new ones for medicine, energy, and industry

#13 of 29 research categories by total funding · About £41 per person in the UK

Funded awards

8,804

Published funding

£2.7B

Average published award

£543K

Active funded awards

1,421

NIHR-supported projects

Amounts are published for 5,056 of 8,804 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

EPSRC funds the most Chemistry research — 4,553 grants (52% of the topic). The busiest year was 2019, with 661 grants.

Top Funders by Funded Award Count

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Funder	Funded awards
EPSRC	4,553
InnovateUK	998
BBSRC	939
EC	736
UKRI	713
NERC	470
STFC	150
Wellcome	82
MRC	70
CRUK	42

Funded Awards by Year

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Year	Funded awards
2006	291
2007	314
2008	280
2009	238
2010	230
2011	212
2012	248
2013	324
2014	303
2015	414
2016	593
2017	647
2018	632
2019	661
2020	647
2021	619
2022	619
2023	584
2024	612
2025	248

Grants


Putting Low Coordination into Practice by the Exploration of Metal-sigma-Interactions: Fundamentals, New Catalysts and Catalysis for New Materials	—	EPSRC	£1.9M	2015	Completed
ChloroCat - Unlocking metal-chloride bonds for data-driven stereoselective catalysis	Durham University	UKRI	£1.5M	2025	Active
Phosphorus Masquerading as a Metal	—	UKRI	£1.3M	2024	Active
Onium Ions in (Photo)Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	University of Nottingham	UKRI	£1.3M	2023	Active
Core Capability for Chemistry Research: Cardiff School of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry	Cardiff University	EPSRC	£981K	2014	Completed
Alkenes as Nucleophiles in Catalytic Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation	—	EPSRC	£964K	2009	Completed
Core Capability for Chemistry Research in Southampton	University of Southampton	EPSRC	£904K	2013	Completed
Harnessing the Power of Diels-Alderases in Sustainable Chemoenzymatic Synthesis	University of Bristol	BBSRC	£863K	2024	Active
From Organic to Inorganic Chemistry: Exploiting the Isolobal Analogy to Develop Main Group Catalysts	Cardiff University	EPSRC	£849K	2018	Completed
Predictive multiscale free energy simulations of hybrid transition metal catalysts	Science and Technology Facilities Council	EPSRC	£683K	2022	Completed
Catalytic C-H Activation of Aliphatic Amines	University of Cambridge	EPSRC	£643K	2016	Completed
CATALOOP: Closing the loop in stereoselective catalysis with data-driven approaches	—	UKRI	£536K	2025	Active
New Insights, New Catalysts and New Processes using Enantioselective Carbonylations.	University of St Andrews	EPSRC	£521K	2014	Completed
Putting Low Coordination into Practice by the Exploration of Metal-sigma-Interactions: Fundamentals, New Catalysts and Catalysis for New Materials	University of York	EPSRC	£508K	2020	Completed
21BBSRC-NSF/BIO - Evolving quantum mechanical tunnelling in enzymes	University of Manchester	BBSRC	£492K	2023	Active
CATART - Reaction robot with intimate photocatalytic and separation functions in a 3-D network driven by artificial intelligence	University of Glasgow	UKRI	£389K	2022	Active
SELEC: Sulfur based linchpins for the selective coupling of electrophilic fragments	—	UKRI	£206K	2025	Active
Single-Electon-Transfer-Mediated Asymmetric Synthesis of Boron-Functionalised Amino Acids and Peptides Empowered by Synergistic Photocatalysis	University of Bristol	UKRI	£204K	2022	Completed
High-efficient green bulky alkene epoxidation using in-situ generated H2O2 by Pd-based bimetals on titanosilicalite	Cardiff University	UKRI	£192K	2024	Active
New Phosphorus- and Boron-Containing Allene Analogues for Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis	University of Edinburgh	NERC	£11K	2022	Completed

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