17 June 2019, 5pm (Concept Notes) 3 September 2019, 5pm (invited full applications)
Wellcome Trust Open Research Fund
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/schemes/open-research-fund
Up to £50K is available for up to one year open to individuals or teams of up to six members from anywhere in the world to develop, pilot and evaluate innovative approaches that aim to make health research more open
you must propose to:
Wellcome particularly welcomes proposals that do one or more of the following:
Complete a three-page Concept Note form by 17 June
This is an annual call. In 2018 Wellcome received 96 applications and, as an experiment, 78 of those applications are available with brief summaries explaining why they were successful/unsuccessful – i.e. how well the application fitted the criteria of the call.
These are available here:
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/open-research-fund-applications-submitted
Anyone planning to make an application to this call would be well advised to study the feedback to these applications so as to decide whether your idea is in remit for the call and how best to address your case (e.g. feasibility, degree of innovation, planned dissemination, community buy-in and evaluation of impact).
The 8 awards are listed here:
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/people-and-projects/grants-awarded?scheme_id=3580
Dear colleague – as you may know, Pauline Dixon, Karen Ross and Bob Newbery have recently been awarded some pump-priming funding from the Global Challenges Academy to set up the Women in Development Network (WiDeN) Our longer-term plan for WiDeN is to be able to respond to future calls under GCRF which focus on gender and the economy and in particular, looking at the ways in which women are empowering themselves (and the families and communities) through their entrepreneurial activities. We hope to be able to answer fundamental questions which relate to the institutions, cultural norms, structures and strategies which enable such activity to develop and flourish or which, on the other hand, hinder women’s economic ambitions.
In the short-term, however, we would like to invite anyone who is working in the broad area of gender and development, gender and the economy or gender and entrepreneurial activity or indeed any other area of gender-based research which seems relevant, to come along to a lunchtime meeting to exchange experiences and interests and hopefully identify some initial ideas for collaboration.
WiDeN is at a very preliminary stage of its development, everything is possible, so if you’d like to get involved in something interesting which could become brilliant, please come along on Wednesday 29 May (1300-1430, KGVI.1.36B), and let’s start talking. Lunch provided. Please register here so we can organise catering and avoid creating a sandwich mountain.
In June there will be three British Council calls for funds aimed at building research collaborations in Mexico, and developing impact for current or previous Newton holders.
There will be a British Council-led Workshop
Would you like to instigate or enhance research collaborations with Mexico? Are you a current or previous Newton holder that could develop more impact? Could you use some funds to help you do that?
If so, you’re invited to a British Council led workshop to explore three forthcoming funding calls. Specifically, the June calls will be:
NEWTON FUND-INSTITUTIONAL LINKS
a. IL-Transformative Innovation: to initiate collaborations between academic groups and institutions to support the exchange of research and innovation expertise and the translation of research knowledge into tangible benefits aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals focusing on promoting systemic change.
NEWTON FUND IMPACT SCHEMES
This grant is designed to provide previous and current Newton award holders with the opportunity to unlock further impact from their work in a way that strengthens the impact of their projects. The intention is that selected proposals will add tangible value in communities both in Mexico and in the UK.
The workshop will explore how best to position your research, and allow you to pitch your work to the fund managers.
Details: 22nd May, 10.00 – 13.00, Old Library Building 10.00 – 13.00
You may wish to stay for all or part of the session. A more detailed agenda and registration details will follow.
If you would like to briefly pitch your idea to the British Council, please email Victoria.bainbridge@ncl.ac.uk to express your interest.
Fourth call for research to improve adolescent health in low and middle income countries
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/adolescent-health/fourth-global-adolescent-health-call/
Call opens: 29/05/19
Deadline: 16/07/19
Budget: ~£4m
This call aims to fund world-class and cutting edge applied research that addresses the health needs of adolescent populations in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Awards will build and strengthen research partnerships and promote capacity building in global adolescent health research.
Interdisciplinary proposals will be particularly encouraged that address the most pressing health needs of adolescents in LMICs.
There will be a two-stage application process, initially inviting researchers to submit outline proposals to be considered by a review panel.
Funding for this call forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment. Applications must demonstrate the research to be primarily relevant and directly linked to near-term benefits to the health and economic development of LMICs.
Those interested in developing ideas should contact Elisa Lawson to ensure that research projects meet ODA requirements and the needs of low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Full call details will be populated on the link above closer to the launch date (29/05/19).
2 October 2019, 4pm Call opens on 1 August 2019
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/mrc-az-cld1/mrc-astrazeneca-centre-for-lead-discovery/
The MRC/AstraZeneca Centre for Lead Discovery (CLD) aims to support academic researchers in discovering potential starting points for small molecule therapeutic approaches with a clear line-of-sight to therapeutic use.
Academic researchers will benefit from unprecedented access to over two million molecules in AstraZeneca’s compound library, as well as its state-of-the-art high throughput screening facilities.
Following completion of the HTS campaign, sufficient ‘hit’ data should be available to enable applicants to seek follow-on funding internally through confidence in concept or through the MRC’s Development Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS).
The MRC will provide funding to support up to 5-10 projects per year. In the first instance, the competition will be run once a year, for an initial five year period. As capacity is limited, projects will be prioritised for funding and for timeslots within the facility.
In order to apply for funding, an assay suitable for high-throughput screening against the target of interest must be available (either through the investigators work or commercially) or at an advanced stage of development. Assays suitable for hit- confirmation, specificity and or key selectivity must have been developed or be in the process of development.
Note that, the less well developed the assay, and the more work that is required prior to transfer to the CLD, the less competitive the proposal will be.
All projects funded under this initiative will be collaborative studies between academic researchers and AZ. The investigators will work under a pre-agreed standard collaborative research agreement, jointly signed by the Research Organisation and AZ, based closely on the Lambert Agreement for preclinical studies.
The MRC would normally expect the host institute TTO to assist in the preparation of application and expects the TTO to play an active role in maintaining and exploiting intellectual property generated by successful applications, therefore please discuss any intended application with your Institute Business Development Manager.
Further details and documentation are available at the URL above.
