Deadline: 01-Dec-2025
The Arthritis Ireland is delighted to announce the Research Grant Call, inviting applications for high-quality, impactful research that aligns with their strategic research priorities and aims to improve the lives of people living with arthritis in Ireland.
This initiative represents an important opportunity for researchers to make a meaningful impact on the lives of people living with arthritis, contributing to improved treatment, care, and overall wellbeing. The research priorities include Disease Prevention & Early Diagnosis, Preventing or slowing disease progression, and Improving early and accurate diagnosis, and understanding its impact on quality of life. They also cover Treatment Development & Optimisation, Developing or improving medications, Improved knowledge of mechanisms of disease, and Advancing biological understanding to guide better treatment choices.
Symptom & Pain Management focuses on Improving approaches to pain relief and addressing barriers to adequate pain management, while Lifestyle & Self-Management Approaches explore Understanding the role of exercise in risk, prevention, and management, as well as Exploring the impact of diet on disease management. Mental Health & Wellbeing aims at Investigating how arthritis and rheumatic diseases affect mental health and finding effective ways to support and treat it.
This call is open to researchers across clinical, biomedical, social, and health services disciplines, and collaborative and patient-centred approaches are strongly encouraged. The aim is to build a future where people with arthritis can live full and active lives through innovative and impactful research.
The funding opportunity is available to researchers in the Republic of Ireland who are affiliated with a hospital or university. A total fund of €100,000 will be distributed as five awards of €20,000 each, providing a valuable resource for advancing research across the stated focus areas.
The submission deadline is 5pm on Monday 1 December 2025. Successful applicants will be required to submit a 1–2-page final project report, a financial accounting report, copies of any publications in progress or accepted, and a list of any public presentations of Arthritis Ireland-funded work within eight weeks of the award term ending, and no later than 30 November 2027.
For more information, visit Arthritis Ireland.
