Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
Scroll to get to know ARIAARIA is a UK R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.
Society’s most important advances have stemmed from those willing to think differently about what might be possible.
The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) empowers scientists and engineers, from our Programme Directors to the teams we fund, with the resources and freedom to pursue breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.
Many will fail to meet their target, but their efforts will inspire the next generation. Those that do succeed will generate massive social and economic returns.
The latest from ARIA
Scalable Neural Interfaces
Meet the opportunity seeds Creators and learn more about their projects
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Mathematics for Safe AI
Meet the opportunity seed Creators and explore their projects
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Trust Everything, Everywhere
Apply for discovery funding to shape a future programme
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Universal Fabricators
Read our latest programme thesis and share your thoughts
Discover moreOpportunity spaces
Defined by our Programme Directors, ARIA opportunity spaces are highly consequential for society; under-explored relative to their potential impact; and ripe for new talent, perspectives, or resources to change what’s possible. Each opportunity space represents fertile ground we'll harvest for technical breakthroughs through programme and seed funding.
Discover our opportunity spaces below:
Sculpting Innate Immunity
Programme: Sustained Viral Resilience
As the body’s first line of defence, the innate immune system has enormous therapeutic potential, sensing and initiating responses to infection, injury, metabolic stress, and chronic degeneration. Modulating innate immunity with precision and accuracy could unlock a new paradigm in human health.
Open calls
Trust Everything, Everywhere: Pre-programme discovery
The Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space asks how we can develop new trust infrastructure for an increasingly cyber-physical world. We’re now looking to fund a number of short research projects to help guide the development of an ambitious research programme and build community within this space.
Opportunity space
Trust Everything, Everywhere
Programme Director
Alex Obadia
Application Date
12 November 2025
AI Scientist
We're accepting proposals for a series of short exploratory projects to be undertaken by existing AI systems capable of performing the full end-to-end workflow of scientific knowledge creation – specifically looking for AI systems that can handle ideation and hypothesis creation, the design of experiments to test these hypotheses, the ability to run experiments in ideally fully automated labs, and the interpretation of results to draw conclusions.
Application Date
14 November 2025
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