Investing in infrastructure
NIHR research infrastructure funding provides a platform to enable early stage and applied research. Our infrastructure provides research expertise, specialist facilities, a research delivery workforce and support services, all of which help to support and deliver the research we fund, and research funded by others. The life sciences industry chooses to work with NIHR infrastructure to access expertise in designing, setting up and delivering high-quality, innovative research.
Some of our schemes support researchers to develop and conduct research (translational infrastructure), others provide a workforce to deliver research on behalf of others (delivery infrastructure), and others provide broader research support and opportunities for collaboration across the infrastructure.
Each year, the NIHR invests more than £606 million of infrastructure funding through five, or more, year awards. The infrastructure provides funding towards, and supports the delivery of, several research projects.
Translational infrastructure
Delivery infrastructure
Clinical Trial Units
Research Support
Research Collaborations