MCP server exposing 5 tools for nihr.
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POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nihr/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}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 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".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 in GBP, programme, funding stream and status, start and end dates, the contracted organisation with postcode and latitude/longitude, HRCS and UKCRC health-category coding, the fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk record link, and every named award holder with their ORCID and role. Use when an agent has an NIHR project reference and needs the detail behind it.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 distinct organisation-name variants that matched, a breakdown by programme, and the individual awards with their values and dates. Answers "how much NIHR money does Imperial College hold", "how many NIHR awards has Guy's and St Thomas won", and institutional league-table comparisons.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 Applicant or Award Holder) and the NIHR project ids they hold, so an agent can pivot straight into nihr_get_award for the grant detail. Answers "which NIHR grants does Professor X hold", "who is the chief investigator on this NIHR award", and ORCID-to-grant lookups across 12,644 award-holder records.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 programme that actually exists with its totals, which is the way to discover valid programme names before filtering elsewhere. Answers "which NIHR programme spends the most", "how many awards has the Health Technology Assessment programme made", and "what NIHR fellowship schemes exist and how big are they".Code samples (curl / TypeScript / one-click client install), schemas, and the live playground are on the pack page:
https://pipeworx.io/packs/nihr/
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