NIHR Infrastructure Supported Projects Dataset

Our research infrastructure provides research expertise, specialist facilities, a research delivery workforce and support services which all help to support and deliver the research we fund, and research funded by others. Research funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), medical research charities, the life sciences industry (biopharmaceuticals, medtech, genomics, diagnostics and digital health), and other relevant industries all benefit from the network of services and support that we provide.

This is an NIHR research infrastructure dataset and excludes the Research Delivery Network (RDN). The dataset is accurate as of the end of the 2025/26 financial year and is updated annually. It shows studies supported by the Applied Health and Social Care Research Collaborations (ARCs), Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs), Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs), Medtech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operatives (MICs), Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU), Healthtech Research Centres (HRCs) which have replaced MICs from 2024/25 and Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs).

Projects appear as duplicates if they have been reported by multiple Infrastructure Centres in multiple years. Using this dataset, users can search for projects that were supported by the abovementioned NIHR Infrastructure schemes by financial year. Please note that this is not a complete dataset as commercially or otherwise sensitive projects have been withheld from it.

Additionally, this dataset has been created to recognise the research infrastructure support that these studies have received and therefore it does not contain information about the support and funding received from other sources (e.g., other funding bodies or the life sciences industry). Legacy data for financial years (FY) from 2012/13 to 2020/21 is provided separately as an Excel file attachment. The current dataset covers the most recent five financial years from 2021/22 onwards.