`nihr_search_awards`

Pack: nihr · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp

Search UK NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) health research grants by keyword over award titles and abstracts. Returns each award’s project id, title, NIHR programme and funding stream, contracted organisation, award value in GBP, start and end dates, chief investigator name, and the fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk link. Filter by programme name, project status (Active, Complete, Contracted, Discontinued) and a minimum award amount; sort by award value or start date. Answers questions like “which NIHR grants fund diabetes research”, “the largest active NIHR cancer awards”, or “recent NIHR mental-health funding”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	no	Free-text keyword or phrase, e.g. “diabetes”, “antimicrobial resistance”, “dementia care”. Matched against award titles and, unless title_only is set, the plain-English and scientific abstracts.
`title_only`	boolean	no	Restrict the keyword match to the award title for a tighter, more on-topic result set (default false, which also searches both abstracts).
`programme`	string	no	NIHR programme name, matched as a case-insensitive substring, e.g. “Health Technology Assessment”, “Public Health”, “Fellowships”. Call nihr_awards_by_programme with no arguments to list the real programme names.
`funding_stream`	string	no	NIHR funding stream, matched as a case-insensitive substring, e.g. “Doctoral Fellowship”, “Commissioned”, “Researcher-led”.
`project_status`	string	no	Exact award status: Active, Complete, Contracted or Discontinued.
`organisation`	string	no	Contracted organisation, matched as a case-insensitive substring, e.g. “Oxford”, “Guy’s and St Thomas”.
`min_amount`	number	no	Only awards worth at least this many GBP (award_amount_from_dh), e.g. 1000000 for awards of £1m and up.
`max_amount`	number	no	Only awards worth at most this many GBP.
`start_from`	string	no	Only awards starting on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`start_to`	string	no	Only awards starting on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`sort_by`	string	no	Ordering of results (default amount_desc, biggest award first).
`limit`	number	no	Max awards to return, 1-${MAX_LIMIT} (default 20).
`offset`	number	no	Pagination offset (default 0).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "dementia",
  "project_status": "Active",
  "min_amount": 1000000,
  "limit": 10
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"nihr_search_awards","arguments":{"query":"dementia","project_status":"Active","min_amount":1000000,"limit":10}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('nihr_search_awards', {
  "query": "dementia",
  "project_status": "Active",
  "min_amount": 1000000,
  "limit": 10
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nihr": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

nihr_search_awards