UK recipient region

East Midlands

Nottingham, Leicester, and Loughborough lead in medicine, sport science, and materials research.

#9 of 13 UK recipient regions by total grants — 1047 mapped lead organisations

Funded awards
11,992
Published funding
£3.6B
Average published award
£440K
Active funded awards
1,880
NIHR-supported projects
3,747

Amounts are published for 8,136 of 11,992 funded awards and EC project participations. Data as of 16 July 2026.

Search funded awards in East Midlands See NIHR-supported projects

East Midlands's biggest topic is Engineering — 1,237 records (10%). University of Nottingham leads local UK-based recipients with 4,991 awards or participations.

Top Funders

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NameFunded awards
EPSRC2,599
InnovateUK1,889
BBSRC1,409
EC870
UKRI854
AHRC795
NIHR734
NERC686
ESRC562
MRC510

Funded Awards by Year

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YearFunded awards
2006320
2007347
2008387
2009379
2010368
2011391
2012437
2013462
2014451
2015684
2016658
2017784
2018761
2019801
2020874
2021775
2022884
2023855
2024864
2025414

Grants

Energy Research AcceleratorUniversity of NottinghamInnovateUK£59.9M2016Completed
National facility for ultra-high field (11.7T) human MRI scanningUniversity of NottinghamUKRI£29.8M2023Active
National Environmental Isotope FacilityBritish Geological SurveyNERC£29.1M2024Active
A Centre for Innovative Manufacturing and ConstructionLoughborough UniversityEPSRC£17.8M2006Completed
Low Cost Nuclear Phase 1Rolls-Royce Power Engineering PLCUKRI£17.7M2019Completed
Mental Health Research Group at the University of LincolnUniversity of LincolnNIHR£11.0M2026Active
Joining unique strategies together for interrogative coercion eliminationDe Montfort UniversityEC£2.1M2026Active
Doctoral Focal Awards in the Arts and Humanities: East Midlands SLAMLoughborough UniversityAHRC£1.6M2026Upcoming
Voices of Britain under and after Rome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Languages, Identities, and Cultural EntanglementsUniversity of NottinghamAHRC£1.2M2026Active
Research on Extended And Layered MultimodalitiesCooke Optics LimitedEC£818K2026Active
Assessing consequences in the cascading of climate Tipping in the ocean-Marine ecology-society connectionUniversity of LeicesterEC£590K2026Upcoming
Digital Twins-Enabled Rural Resilience in Agriculture and forEstryUniversity of LeicesterEC£470K2026Upcoming
Improving the Identification, Understanding, and Support for Self-Harm in Autistic People Across the Lifespan: Validation and Implementation of the Self-Harm Questionnaire – Autism (SHQ-A).University of NottinghamMRF£349K2026Active
Sustainable urban food living labsDown to Earth Derby CICEC£311K2026Upcoming
REcurrent urinary tract infection: Efficacy and safety of PHage theRapy and Microbiota transfErUniversity of LeicesterEC£303K2026Active
Adapting the Parent Report of Children’s Abilities-Revised (PARCA-R) questionnaire: Improving research inclusion and access to healthcare services for families with limited English literacy.University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustNIHR£204K2026Active
NeurOhmics: A platform for subcellular mapping and control of neuronal electrical propertiesUniversity of NottinghamWellcome£199K2026Active
Reactivating Experience: Art, Culture Industry and Authoritarianism in the Digital AgeUniversity of LeicesterEC£137K2026Upcoming
DIRECT: Distributed Intelligence for REsilient Collaborative roboTics in Extreme EnvironmentsLoughborough UniversityEC£137K2026Upcoming
Examining the role for the gut microbial metabolite imidazole propionate in vascular dysfunction and inflammation in type 2 diabetesUniversity of LincolnDiabetesUK£107K2026Upcoming

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