2020 Sir Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research
The Trust offers one grant of up to £1.7 million to support a five-year programme of translational biomedical research.
UK medical schools and NHS organisations are able to submit one application annually, selected following an internal process.
Please ensure to read the guidance notes and terms and conditions documents available via the link above.
Internal selection process
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 2nd September 2019
The Award enables successful applicants to pursue their own independent research programme.
The work must include research involving patients.
There must be a clear specification of the hypothesis based on pre-clinical experimental data supporting the rationale of the clinical study, arising from the applicant’s own work, (not derivative of someone else’s observations).
Further work to support the hypothesis in the early phase of the grant or, indeed, to substantiate questions arising from clinical experiments may be supported by experimental animal models.
There must be a clear strategy defining how the research will translate into benefit for patients and the timescale within which this will take place.
The research must have a justifiable claim to be at the leading edge of international science and must be led by a clearly identified Principal Applicant of outstanding quality in the early years of an established research and academic career.
The Award may not be used to meet the salary costs of the applicant(s) who should be in institutionally funded posts for the duration of the grant.
The studies might include for example:-.
- Significant proposals which could lead to improved diagnosis and/or prognostic methods and to new treatments.
- Concept validation.
- Intervention trials.
All proposals must be based on appropriate bio-statistical analysis
Requested documents
- 1 page project outline
- 2 page CV
Please could the requested application documents be sent, by the deadline, to Darren Airey (darren.airey@newcastle.ac.uk) and Gwen Averley (gwen.averley@newcastle.ac.uk).
Please note – The Trust’s charitable status does not permit the provision of a grant which might, whether directly or indirectly, contribute to a commercial profit for a manufacturer.
An application cannot, therefore, be considered where a manufacturer is supplying a cash grant or equipment, materials, drugs etc. at no cost, whether express or implied, for commercial use of the findings of the project.
The full scheme timeline is outlined via the link above but key dates are highlighted below:
Internal selection deadline –2nd September 2019 (applicants will be informed of the internal selection outcome as soon as is possible after the deadline)
Preliminary stage deadline for selected nominee – 31st October 2019
Full stage deadline for selected nominee – 30th April 2020