A UK charity backing under-served health research
Info@duet.org.ukOur work
Duet supports projects that are practical, deliverable and unlikely to attract commercial sponsorship or a government grant. We give money, and we give time.
Rare diseases
A rare disease can take years to name. We fund the practical work that shortens that wait, from better tests to clearer referral routes.
Medicines and side effects
Medicines only work if people can keep taking them. We support research into side effects and how they can be prevented, spotted and managed.
Research and education
Good science is wasted if nobody can understand it. We fund communication and education that helps the public, patients and clinicians make sense of the evidence.
We are small enough to make decisions quickly and to say honestly when something isn't for us.
A single page is enough: what you want to do, roughly what it costs, and why it hasn't been funded elsewhere. No long application forms.
Our founders and trustees assess the science themselves, and we speak to clinicians or patient groups where it helps. We reply to every enquiry.
Successful projects get funding, plus advice on study design, regulation and communication, and introductions through our network.
We ask for short, plain updates rather than lengthy reports, and we publish what the work found — including when it didn't work.
Duet is funded by our founders and by people who believe useful research should not stall for want of a modest amount of money. Every gift goes into projects.
