NIHR (UK health research)

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Awards made by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research — who was funded, which programme, how much, where, and in what health category.

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Tools

nihr_search_awards

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 s

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nihr_get_award

Retrieve one UK NIHR award in full by its project id (either the modern form NIHR208893 or the older slash form 002/0028). Returns the plain-English abstract and the scientific abstract, award value i

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nihr_awards_by_organisation

Total up UK NIHR health research funding held by a university, NHS trust or company. Give any part of the institution name and get back the number of NIHR awards, the summed award value in GBP, the di

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nihr_award_holders

Find the researchers named on UK NIHR awards by personal name or ORCID identifier. Returns each matching award holder with their ORCID, their role on the award (Chief Investigator, Joint Lead Applican

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nihr_awards_by_programme

Break UK NIHR funding down by programme or funding stream: award counts, total value in GBP, mean award size and the date range of awards in each. Called with no arguments it lists every NIHR programm

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"nihr_search_awards","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("nihr_search_awards", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("awards made by the uk national institute for health and care research — who was funded, which programme, how much, where, and in what health category");