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Academy of Medical Sciences,

Global Challenges Research Funding Networking Grants (round2)

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/gcrf-networking-grants

Deadline: 21/03/18

Amount: £25k (up to £5k for consumables / pilot data)

Duration: 1 year (to start between 1 July 2018 and 30 September 2018)

Eligibility: Must have a salary (permanent or fixed-term) for the duration of the award

This scheme is targeted at experienced researchers who are looking to form new international collaborations.

The maximum amount available is £25,000 of which £5,000 can be used for consumables for obtaining pilot data, archival research or fieldwork.

The remainder can be used to contribute towards travel and subsistence costs, costs associated with networking events, administrative support and access to technical support.

Grants cannot be used to pay for salary costs or to employ research assistants, PhD students or postdoctoral staff.

Please ensure to read the full call guidance documents available through the link above.

The 11 awards made in round 1 can be viewed at the bottom of the page in the link above.

Please could you advertise this opportunity to MRC funded researchers in your institutes. Please note the very specific remit / eligibility.

2018 MRC-NIH Neurodegeneration Partnering Awards

https://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/2018-mrc-nih-npa/2018-mrc-nih-neurodegeneration-partnering-awards/

Opens 1^st March 2018

Deadline: 5^th April 2018

Amount: £15k (total budget £135k)

Eligibility: Early career researchers (ECRs) employed on a currently active MRC grant and PIs who are NOT established independent researchers (e.g. NIRGs, CDA/CSF/SDF fellows).

The overarching aim of this scheme is to provide resources to MRC-funded early career researchers working in the area of neurodegenerative disease to allow them to forge long-term collaborations with National Institutes of Health (NIH)-based researchers.

This scheme will forge long-term collaborations and form the basis for future competitive awards.

The aim(s) of the visit(s) will be specific to each application. For illustrative purposes only, these can include:

• promote access to facilities, including training in new methodologies or use of new instruments
• analyse and compare samples
• data analysis
• pilot work

Please ensure to read the call guidance notes, assessment criteria and call details available through the link above.

Please contact Gwen Averley or Darren Airey if you have any queries.

BRC Clinical Fellowships_Application Guidance Notes_Jan 2018 BRC Clinical Fellowship_Application Form_Jan 2018

The NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is seeking a number of exceptional individuals to undertake three year Clinical PhD Fellowships that will make significant contributions to the translational aims of our NIHR Newcastle BRC in ageing and long-term conditions.

Applications are invited from UK-registered Clinicians (including Doctors, Dentists, Nurses, and other Allied Health Professionals) with fellowship proposals that address our overarching aim in Ageing and Long-Term Conditions. We particularly welcome applications from Nurses and Allied Health Professionals working with older people. The award offers 3 years full-time funding to undertake a PhD and is aimed at individuals, of outstanding potential, early in their research careers.

Key Dates

• Call Opens: 30 January 2018
• Submission Deadline: 27 March 2018, 5pm
• Interviews: June 2018
• Project Start Date: October 2018 

NIHR Newcastle BRC

The overarching aim of the NIHR Newcastle BRC is improving lives through world class research in ageing and long-term conditions. This will be achieved through building on our excellence in experimental medicine in dementia, liver disease, musculoskeletal disease, neuromuscular disease, and skin & oral disease, and apply advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these individual long-term conditions to ageing syndromes such as sarcopenia, frailty and multi-morbidity.

BRCs are funded by NIHR to drive innovation in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and translate advances in research into patient benefit by bridging the first translational gap with a requirement that research benefits patients within 5 years. Any projects we fund must have clear potential clinical implications and identifiable outcomes that will move scientific research closer to patient benefit, this may also include the early development of medical or healthcare technology. Projects should aim to attract follow-on funding.

Funding

The award will cover:

• Salary costs: corresponding to your stage of training, up to but not including NHS consultant level.
• Up to £15,000 per year; to cover tuition fees, consumables, conference travel and other research running costs.

How to Apply

Application forms and guidance notes are attached and also available via the NIHR Newcastle BRC website.  Forms should be completed and submitted via email to eleanor.lockhart@ncl.ac.uk by the 5pm on 27 March 2018.

https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/our-research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/expanding-theories/

Deadline: 19^th March 2018           

Amount:  Up to £60,000

Duration: Up to 2 years

This funding opportunity is designed to promote innovative approaches that could fundamentally change the understanding, diagnosis, and/or management of brain tumours.

The goal of this award is to develop novel concepts that may eventually lead to significant improvements in clinical outcomes, including quality of life, for people with brain tumours.

The awards are designed to allow exploration of theories with the potential to open new avenues of investigation.

Projects funded through this scheme should be pilot awards.

It is intended that the scheme will allow the generation of sufficient data to support applications for larger scale projects to national/ international funding organisations.

Assessment criteria

Relevance to brain tumours

Novelty of approach

Expertise of applicants

Feasibility of project

Potential impact on the field

Please ensure to read the full call guidance document available through the link above and also the funder research strategy ‘A cure can’t wait’.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-and-support/current-funding-opportunities/?&start=1&custom_in_Programme=5242

Multiple deadlines

Potential calls of interest;

17/111 PHR Mental Health Themed Call

Closing date: 10 April 2018

The PHR Programme are participating in the Themed Call: promotion of good mental health and the prevention or treatment of mental ill health across the whole life course

18/06 Enabling people to live well with dementia through interventions in a community setting

Closing date: 24 July 2018

The Public Health Research Programme are accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this topic

18/05 Interventions for looked-after children and young people that aim to enhance quality of life

Closing date: 24 July 2018

The Public Health Research Programme are accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this topic

Please see the link above for all available opportunities and full calls details.

https://www.action.org.uk/our-research/apply-research-grant/apply-project-grant/action-medical-research-and-borne

Deadline: 27^th March 2018

Pump-priming Grants – Up to £75k, 12-18 months

Project Grants – Up to £200k, up to 3 years

Applications are invited in the fields of:

• preterm birth and factors leading to preterm birth
• pre-eclampsia; IUGR; the pathophysiological pathways that trigger the premature onset of labour
• the maternal environment to ensure healthy babies
• the maternal microbiome and the maternal immune system in pregnancy
• the development of the baby during pregnancy
• monitoring fetal health during pregnancy
• monitoring the health of the baby during delivery
• preparation for pregnancy to improve outcomes for the baby including nutrition.

This joint award is focused on the pregnancy period and the factors and conditions in pregnancy that may lead to preterm birth.

Exclusions include assisted conception, maternal health not having an impact on babies and children, and neonatal and perinatal interventions to address the consequences of prematurity.

Outline applications will be graded on both potential clinical impact and scientific quality.

A combination of clinical and science applicants is particularly ecouraged including novel scientific collaborations that could bring new insight into the problems of preterm birth.

Focused high quality research that can be translated into clinical solutions in the short to medium term is encouraged.