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The BSRA is delighted to announce the award of a record 18 small research grants across 13 UK institutions in its 2026 round, thanks to sponsorship from DoNotAge.org and Quest NutraPharma. Many of the recipients are Early Career Researchers, providing them an essential stepping stone in their careers and increasing their chances of becoming future
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Dr Laura Sinclair, Exeter University, was awarded a BSRA Travel Grant in 2025, which she used to attend our ASM in Manchester. Here she explains the impact of a travel grant on an Early Career Researcher: I was delighted to receive a BSRA Travel Grant to attend the annual meeting in Manchester in September 2025.
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In 2025, Prof Lord Kakkar, Chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR), invited the Chair of the BSRA, Professor David Weinkove, to produce a report outlining the barriers to translation for researchers in the biology of ageing. Together with BSRA Trustee, Jon Houseley, a Group Leader at the Babraham Institute, David
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The BSRA is delighted to announce that Quest NutraPharma responded to our Six for 2026 fundraising campaign with a generous offer to fund three of our Small Research Grants. BSRA member, Dr Ahmed Hassam, read our campaign email and got in touch to discuss the potential for Quest NutraPharma to support it. Ahmed came to
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In 2024, the BSRA awarded 3 Small Research Grants, 4 Travel Grants and 2 Summer Studentships. One of the Summer Studentships went to Phoebe Bedford at the University of Oxford – and this is what she had to say about the experience: ‘Having just completed my second year studying Biology at Oxford, I was lucky
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Donate here The BSRA is proud to have been supporting scientists working in ageing research for generations. Every year we award small grants ranging from £500 to £3000 to young and promising researchers (see previous winners). At a time when resources in academia are scarce, these can be invaluable. Awardees are given the opportunity to