Grants and Funding Opportunities – The Platelet Society

Grants and Funding

Grant and Funding Opportunities

The Platelet Society offers a number of small grants for reseachers. These are described in more detail, including submission data and links to forms in the tabs below.

For general enquires on grants, please email us at info@plateletsociety.co.uk

General Information

The Platelet Society was established to promote excellence in research, education and public awareness of platelet biology in human health and disease.

Thanks to a recent award from the ISTH London 2022 legacy funds, the Platelet Society will be offering a range of awards including summer studentships, outreach and education grants, skills transfer grants and clinical audits. These awards will allow us to drive forward the following Society principles:

1. To support the development and training of platelet scientists at early stage of their career (ECRs)
2. To support education and outreach activities of the Society to increase awareness of platelet-related diseases, and to better engage with patients
3. To support research into platelets, platelet-based disorders and platelet-related diseases.

All funding opportunities will be via a formal application process, with peer review administered by a Platelet Society Awards Committee. Each Award committee will include an executive committee member, a member of the Board of Trustees, reviewers from our Awards Review panel (listed below), at least 1 ECR reviewer and a lay member.

For more information about each funding opportunity, please visit the corresponding Awards tab for more details.

In line with our EDI principles, the Platelet Society is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. Applications for, and awards of, all of the grants will be reviewed during the peer review and awards process by the Society’s Executive committee awards, and EDI representatives. This will ensure our initiatives are supporting individuals of all backgrounds, and are inclusive to all underrepresented groups.

Platelet Society Awards committee

- Dr Ahmed Aburima – University of Hull
- Dr Alice Pollitt – University of Reading
- Dr Harriet Allan (ECR) – Queen Mary’s University London
- Professor Ingeborg Hers – University of Bristol
- Dr Kirk Taylor – University of Reading
- Dr Luis Moran (ECR) – University of Bristol,
- Dr Mike Emerson – Imperial College London
- Professor Robert Ariens – University of Leeds
- Dr Sarah Jones – Manchester Metropolitan University
- Dr Will Parker – Clinician, University of Sheffield

Outreach and Education grants

The Platelet Society will be running two calls in 2024 for grants to support platelet related outreach and eduction projects. The aim of the Outreach and Education grant scheme is to provide Platelet Society members with support to create and run innovative public/patient outreach and education sessions. This might include:

- Interactive activities for a public festival or science club.
- Workshops for students/teachers/patients.
- Public seminars from platelet biology scientists/researchers.
- Activities to promote increased diversity and inclusion in platelet research.
- Activities that support the Society’s remit of increasing awareness of platelet related diseases.

Funds (usually up to £300, although amounts up to £500 will be considered if justified) will support costs associated with the production of promotional/marketing materials (such as banners, posters, fliers, etc.), activity materials, cost of equipment required to run the activity, and travel/transport costs.

Details of Calls

Date Call Opens – End April 2024
Date Call Closes – Rolling call – Panel will meet approximately every 3 months
Decisions Communicated – within 1 week of panel meeting

Specific Call Details

A brief guidance document can be downloaded from – Outreach application guidance – 2024
To submit an application, please complete the application form which can be downloaded from – Outreach Application Form.
The completed form should be uploaded using the submission form below.
General enquires on the studentships should be sent to info@plateletsociety.co.uk

Hear more about running out reach activities in our recent Probably Platetets interview with Dr Sarah Jones

Summer Studentships

The Platelet Society is delighted to annouce they will be offering summer studentship opportunities again in 2024

The aim of these studentships is to encourage platelet scientists to look for applications of their research in questions relevant to the field and provide opportunities for high calibre undergraduate students to experience working in a research lab. This opportunity would be a great way for students considering doing a PhD to experience working on a research project and for ECRs to expereince managing and supervising a project

The Platelet Society are funding 2 studentships to run in the summer of 2024. Studentships will come with a stipend of £1500 for the student and up to £500 consumables.

Details of Calls

Date Call Opens – 18th March 2024
Date Call Closes – 30th April 2024
Decisions Communicated – End May 2024

Specific Call Details

A brief guidance document can be downloaded from – Summer Studentship guidance.
To submit an application, please complete the application form which can be downloaded from – Summer Studentship Application Form.
The completed form and a copy of the students CV (Max 1 page) should be uploaded using the submission form below.
General enquires on the studentships should be sent to info@plateletsociety.co.uk

Skills Transfer Grants

The Platelet Society is pleased to offer a limited number of Skills Transfer Grants to promote exchange, training and/or transfer of skills and technologies from one group to another or for the development of a platelet scientist

This might include:

- Visit to another lab (UK or overseas) to learn or teach a new technique.
- Attendance at a training workshop where the emphasis is on learning new skills (i.e. not a conference)

Funds (up to £300) can be used to help cover the costs associated with the skills transfer (e.g. travel/accommodation). To help benefit as many people as possible, applicants are encouraged to seek additional funding for the visit. Applications which demonstrate matched funding from the Institution (home or host) or other organisations, will be looked on favourably.

Details of Calls

Date Call Opens – 1st May 2024
Date Call Closes – Rolling call – Panel will meet approximately every 3 months
Decisions Communicated – within 1 week of panel meeting

Specific Call Details

A brief guidance document can be downloaded from – Skills Transfer application guidance – 2024.
To submit an application, please complete the application form which can be downloaded from – Skills Transfer Application Form.
The completed form should be uploaded using the submission form below.
General enquires on the studentships should be sent to info@plateletsociety.co.uk

Clinical Audits

The Platelet Society is delighted to announce that thanks to ISTH funding we will be offering funding to support small clinical audits in late 2024.

We will welcome applications for clinical audits with a focus on identifying areas of clinical/patient need to improve diagnosis and treatment strategies for patients with platelet related diseases.

More information will follow at a later date in 2024.

Details of Forthcoming Calls

Date Call Opens – TBC

Date Call Closes – TBC

Specific Call Details –

Application Form