International funding bodies directory
Telephone numbers
Within this section you will find research funding organisations that have contributed to the funding of cognitive research studies using human subjects included in the ISRCTN Registry and/or using CANTAB® tests published since 2015.
Details of additional funding organisations are listed on the Society for Neuroscience website. If you know of further organisations you think should be included please let us know.
Research support organisations
South Africa
- Medical Research Council of South Africa
- National Research Foundation of South Africa
- Southern Africa Consortium for Research Excellence (SACORE)
- South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI)
Nigeria
- Almajiri Metaphysics Foundation
China, People’s Republic of
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chinese National Center for Biotechnology Development, Ministry of Science & Technology
- National Basic Research Program of China
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- The Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission
- The National Key Technology R&D Program
India
Japan
- Asahi Glass Foundation
- Hakuho Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- The Toyota Foundation
South Korea
Singapore
- Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- National Medical Research Council, Singapore
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)
- Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund
Taiwan
Australia
- Advance Queensland
- Australian Research Council
- Cancer Institute New South Wales
- Diabetes Australia Research Trust
- Endeavour Leadership Program (ELP)
- JO and JR Wicking Trust
- Lions Medical Research Foundation
- Monash Health
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Optimising Early Interventions for Young People with Emerging Mood Disorders (Optymise)
- NSW Health Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office
- Pork Cooperative Research Council
- The Leukaemia Foundation
- The Royal Children’s Hospital
- The Victoria Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Programme
- Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation
New Zealand
General European Sources
- EU Innovative Medicines Initiative
- European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme
- European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme
- European Hydration Institute (EHI)
- European Medical Information Framework
- European Regional Development Fund
- European Research Council
- European Social Fund
- Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
- Toyota Fund for Europe
Belgium
Denmark
- Aase and Ejnar Danielsen’s Foundation
- Beatrice Surovell Haskell Fund for Child Mental Health Research of Copenhagen (Fond)
- Danish Medical Research Council
- Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Science
- Fru C. Hermansens Mindelegat
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Nordea-fonden
- Psychiatric Foundation of the Region of Southern Denmark
- Region Zealand Health Scientific Research Foundation
- Sofiefonden
- The A.P. Moller Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Science
- The Augustinus Foundation
- The Danish Research Council for Independent Research
- The Mental Health Services of the Capital Region of Denmark
- TRYG Foundation
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Dr Werner Jackstädt-Stiftung
- Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
- Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF)
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- German Childhood Cancer Foundation
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Heinz Nixdorf Foundation
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
- Fund for the Heart (Fonds voor het Hart) (The Netherlands)
- Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- ZonMW
Norway
- Gerda Meyer Nyquist Gulbranson and Gerdt Meyer Nyquist’s Fund
- Laerdal Foundation
- Norwegian Epilepsy Association
- The Research Council of Norway
Poland
Portugal
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
- Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Spain
- DIUE de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Ministry of Economy and Enterprise
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
- Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare
- Ministry of Science and Innovation
Sweden
Switzerland
- Anna Mueller Grocholski Foundation
- Hartmann Müller Foundation
- Jacobs Foundation
- Olga Mayenfisch Foundation
- Societé Académique Vaudoise
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- Swiss MS Society
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
- Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZHIP)
United Kingdom
- NIHR Research Design Service (RDS)
The Research Design Service (RDS) provides free design and methodological support to health researchers in England who are developing research funding applications. RDS supports research teams to develop and submit high quality applied health and social care grant applications to NIHR and other open, national, peer-reviewed funding programmes.
For regional contacts visit: http://www.rds.nihr.ac.uk/support-options/regional-centres/ - DenDRoN – NIHR Clinical Research Network: Dementias and neurodegeneration
Ensures that studies into dementia and neurodegeneration (including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease and Huntington’s disease) that are included in the NIHR national portfolio of research receive the right support to make sure they are delivered successfully in the NHS. - Academy of Medical Sciences
- Action Medical Research
- Alzheimer’s Research UK
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Arthritis Research UK
- Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
- BBSRC
- BRACE Charity
- British Heart Foundation
- British Medical Association
- Cancer Research UK
- Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Diabetes UK
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Elizabeth Casson Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Evelyn Trust
- Food Standards Agency
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Maudsley Charity
- Medical Research Council
- Meningitis Research Foundation
- Mental Health Foundation
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
- National Osteoporosis Society
- Parkinson’s UK
- Psychiatry Research Trust
- Rosetrees Trust
- Scottish Government
- Stanley Medical Research Institute
- Tenovus-Scotland
- The Dunhill Medical Trust
- The Howard Foundation, Tel: +44 (0) 777 1867986
- The Moulton Charitable Foundation, c/o Better Capital Llp. Tel: 020 7440 0860
- The Physiological Society
- The Stroke Association
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- The Wallitt Foundation
- The Waterloo Foundation
- Wellcome Trust
Canada
- Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP)
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation (COTF)
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS)
- The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
United States of America
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Center for Disease Control
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate
- Autism Speaks
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- Cohen Trust
- Jérôme Lejeune Foundation
- John S. Dunn Foundation
- LuMind Research Down Syndrome Foundation
- MIND Institute
- National Ataxia Foundation
- National Cancer Institute
- National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- National Center for Responsible Gaming
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Parkinson Foundation
- Oncology Nursing Society Foundation
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Sunshine Kids Foundation
- The Dunn Foundation
- The JPB Foundation
- The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
- Trichotillomania Learning Center
- Veterans Administration Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
- If you know of further organisations you think should be included please let us know.
