The NIHR Remit

The NIHR Remit

NIHR supports training in clinical and applied health research, including social care research.
The proposal must have clear potential for benefitting patients and the public within 5 years of its completion (but recognising the training element of the research).
The research can involve: patients; samples or data from patients; people who are not patients; populations; health technology assessment; or health services research.
NIHR does not support basic research or work involving animals or their tissue.
If the work involves biomarkers:

research that tests whether application of new knowledge can improve treatment or patient outcomes, and has obvious potential benefit within 5 years, is within remit [1]; [1] This might include application of known biomarkers, or other prognostic factors, to refine and test novel therapeutic strategies
research that aims only to elucidate mechanisms underpinning disease, or identify risk factors for disease or prognosis (including search for biomarkers) is out of remit.