UK recipient region

North West

Manchester and Liverpool anchor a region strong in health, physics, and industrial innovation.

#5 of 13 UK recipient regions by total grants — 1752 mapped lead organisations

Funded awards
19,688
Published funding
£7.4B
Average published award
£536K
Active funded awards
2,997
NIHR-supported projects
4,504

Amounts are published for 13,878 of 19,688 funded awards and EC project participations. Data as of 16 July 2026.

Search funded awards in North West See NIHR-supported projects

North West's biggest topic is Engineering — 1,660 records (8%). University of Manchester leads local UK-based recipients with 7,679 awards or participations.

Top Funders

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NameFunded awards
EPSRC3,406
InnovateUK3,082
BBSRC1,787
EC1,565
STFC1,358
ESRC1,282
UKRI1,280
NIHR1,204
MRC1,148
NERC1,037

Funded Awards by Year

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YearFunded awards
2006554
2007585
2008577
2009597
2010638
2011552
2012657
2013761
2014846
20151,121
20161,030
20171,379
20181,184
20191,366
20201,446
20211,289
20221,417
20231,470
20241,401
2025620

Grants

Low cost nuclear-phase 2Rolls-royce UK SmrUKRI£210.0M2021Completed
Accelerating Detection of Disease Core Programme (1 April 2023 onwards)Our Future HealthUKRI£116.2M2023Completed
Sir Henry Royce Institute - Manchester BuildUniversity of ManchesterEPSRC£112.9M2016Completed
Royce Phase 2University of ManchesterEPSRC£96.0M2022Active
Medicine Discovery Catapult Core Delivery ProgrammeMedicines Discovery Catapult LimitedInnovateUK£62.5M2018Completed
New physics from a precision concordance model of the radio skyUniversity of ManchesterEC£1.9M2026Upcoming
Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet (Doctoral Focal Awards in the Arts and Humanities)University of LiverpoolAHRC£1.6M2026Upcoming
Revealing the plant protein components of diets before farming through archaeobotany, experimental archaeology and biomoleculesUniversity of LiverpoolEC£1.4M2026Upcoming
Agentic GenAI Open Research AssistantUniversity of ManchesterEC£713K2026Upcoming
Toolkit for noise and societal impact assessment of u-space-enabled drone operationsUniversity of SalfordEC£476K2026Upcoming
Trusted AI-Generated Digital Twins for Research InfraStructurEsUniversity of LiverpoolEC£472K2027Upcoming
Dimensionally driven Insights for Nonlinear Optics and Engineered materialsUniversity of ManchesterEC£77K2026Upcoming
EuPRAXIA Early Implementation Phase ProjectUniversity of LiverpoolEC£77K2026Upcoming
Farmer-in-the-loop heritage-aware AI and Robotic Mechanisation for Agricultural ResilienceForth Engineering (cumbria) LimitedEC£52K2026Upcoming
Strengthening Our Institutions and Localities for Soil Transformation, Inclusion, and Civic EngagementWestmorland and Furness CouncilEC£51K2026Upcoming
ATMOspheric research infrastructure SERVices for curiosity-driven research of atmospheric chemistry and dynamicsUniversity of ManchesterEC£51K2026Upcoming
A Holistic Neuroarchitectural Approach to Child-Centred Healthcare Design: A Multimodal Framework Using Mixed Reality and Artificial IntelligenceEurope for Business LTDEC£34K2026Upcoming
Blood Supply Chain and Logistics Optimisation for Decision Support, Sustainability, and Resilience EnhancementUniversity of SalfordEC£9K2027Upcoming
Exploring the biology of the immunoregulatory molecules Ym1 and Ym2 in wild miceUniversity of ManchesterBBSRCNot disclosed2028Upcoming
Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with calibrated non-universal initial mass functionsLiverpool John Moores UniversitySTFCNot disclosed2027Upcoming

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