Budget: £2.2m total with approx. 4 projects supported
Duration: Up to 3 years
Deadline: 9th April 2018, outline submission via email – 09th May 2018 full call deadline via Je-S
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Kenya are inviting research proposals to the Newton Fund’s UK-Kenya Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases. This initiative will provide funding for high quality collaborative research projects focused on addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Kenya.
The proposal should be developed by a UK PI and a Kenyan PI. Principal Investigators may only submit one application to this scheme as principal investigator, but may be involved in more applications if listed as a co-investigator.
Under this first MRC-NRF initiative, research proposals must specifically address one or more of the following diseases:
- Cancer.
- Cardiovascular diseases.
- Chronic respiratory diseases.
- Diabetes.
The funders are welcoming research proposals across the spectrum of research activities including, but not limited to, basic discovery research, epidemiology, understanding the mechanisms of disease, novel detection and diagnosis, development of therapeutics/interventions. Proposals must fall within the remits of both funders.
Research proposals must seek to generate scientific outcomes of relevance to the prevention, treatment, management and/or control of the above listed diseases in Kenya. The purpose of this call is to support research projects; however, the funders are also encouraging projects that incorporate elements of capacity building within them.
All proposals for this call must meet Newton Fund requirements. In particular, proposals must be compliant with Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding rules.
Please ensure to read the full call details and guidance documents, available through the link above.