Funding for Research

Funding for research

We fund research that is helping to advance the development or adoption of scientific methods that will help replace animal use. Our approach to advancing research combines both the scientific and the educational.

To end the use of animals in human disease research and safety testing, suitable non-animal methods have to exist. Where alternative approaches do exist we know that using human biology as the basis for research leads to more accurate and reliable results. Once non-animal methods exist researchers need to know how to find and adopt them

We want to ensure donations to Replacing Animal Research help drive these changes through our grant opportunities. Our current funding schemes support projects that help replace animal use in testing and research, but also allow grant holders to improve their skills and knowledge in human-based research methods, public communication of science, and other areas essential to achieving a more humane research landscape.

Read more about our current approach to funding research in our Grant Funding Policy 2026

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Innovation Grant Scheme

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“This Innovation Grant is helping our lab to shift away from animal-derived products, including foetal bovine serum. This will allow us to make better micro-physiological models of muscle tissue for basic and pre-clinical research.”

Lívia Rocha Dos Santos – 2023 Innovation Grant scheme winner

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Our funded projects

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Creating a human-relevant bleeding simulator to replace the use of pigs

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Growing human skin cells in low-calcium conditions for wound infection models

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Creating human bone marrow models to understand treatment-resistant blood cancer

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Other funding opportunities

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The Alternatives Research and Development Foundation: Established in 1993, the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF) has been a mainstay of support for developing alternatives to animal-based methods in science. Through grant programs, achievement awards and sponsorship of scientific conferences, ARDF advances high quality scientific research that aims to replace and reduce the use of animals.

The John Hopkins Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT): The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), founded in 1981, is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a European branch (CAAT-Europe) located at the University of Kostanz, Germany. They promote humane science by supporting the creation, development, validation, and use of alternatives to animals in research, product safety testing, and education.

The Lush Prize: The Lush Prize offers a global prize fund to support initiatives to end or replace animal testing. It is the largest prize fund in the non-animal testing sector, with a prize fund of £250,000.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare: The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity concerned with improving knowledge and understanding of animals’ needs. 

NC3Rs: A UK-based scientific organisation dedicated to helping the research community worldwide to identify, develop and use 3Rs technologies and approaches.

Humane Research Trust: The Humane Research Trust are committed to a future where the use of animals and animal-derived tissue is obsolete in all medical research projects throughout the world.

AFRUK Animal Free Research UK began in 1970 when the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), now called Cruelty Free International, set up the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research in honour of its former president, Dr Walter Hadwen. They are a grant-giving trust, set up to award grants to scientists to help replace the use of animals in medical research and split from the BUAV in 1980.