Innovation & Research Fund
The Urology Foundation will fund projects up to a value of £70,000 that seek to use new, exciting, innovative approaches to address urological diseases and disorders.
Innovation and Research Fund
Applications for the 2026 fund are now closed. We expect to open for applications again in November/December with a deadline at 23.59 on 31st January 2027.
If you have any queries about the application process, please email the office at grants@theurologyfoundation.org
Success rate of applications
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30% | 33% | 36% | 38% | 21% |
We are pleased to fund the following projects in 2026
| Alasdair Hubbard, Assistant Professor in Antimicrobial Resistance and One Health | University of Nottingham | Assessing risk factors and treatment options for Candida urinary tract infection using a 3D Human Bladder Model |
| Rachel Isba, Consultant in Paediatric Public Health Medicine | Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust | Urinary biomarkers associated with ketamine-induced uropathy (KIU) in under-16s |
| Neil Roberts, Lecturer | The University of Manchester | Modelling early-onset bladder disease in a dish |
| Ramon Garcia Maset, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Oxford | Does flow matter in urinary tract infections (UTI)? Unravelling flow mediated host-pathogen interactions in a human bladder microtissue model |
| Juan Manuel Jiménez Vacas, Postdoctoral Researcher | The Institute of Cancer Research | Exploiting an AR Inhibition-Induced Tankyrase Dependency to Overcome Resistance in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer |
| Clare Mills, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Queens University Belfast | Bacterial RNA Profiling to Differentiate True Urinary Tract Infection from Contamination and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Paediatric and Older Adult Populations |
| Gabriele Pollara, Associate Professor in Infection (UCL) and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology | University College London Hospital NHS Trust | Too much of a good thing: identifying and treating excessive inflammation in recurrent urinary tract infections |
| David Long, Professor in Paediatric Nephrology and Wellcome Trust Investigator in Science | UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | Improving the delivery of anti-fibrotic agents to treat Posterior Urethral Valves |
| Rebecca Garnham, Lecturer in Cancer Biology | University of Sunderland | Deciphering ethnicity-specific glycosylation patterns and their impact on therapeutic response in prostate cancer |