http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/2017/11/2018-joint-transnational-call-for-research-proposals-pre-announcement/

The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) will shortly launch a call for:

Multinational research projects on Health and Social Care for Neurodegenerative Diseases

There are an estimated 47 million people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders worldwide. This figure is expected to double every 20 years as the population ages.  As of today, neurodegenerative diseases are debilitating and still largely untreatable conditions.

Providing appropriate health and social care represents an increasingly significant responsibility for people who live with such diseases as well as their relatives and carers. Novel health and social care concepts focus on what people still can contribute in the context of the disease and how their environment may influence this process. Nevertheless, the availability and quality of health and social care services vary considerably across Europe and beyond.

Therefore, JPND will launch a call for multidisciplinary proposals that focus on one or several of the following research areas:

• Care pathways and programmes using the potential of patient involvement
• Factors influencing progression and prognosis of disease
• Outcome measures for patients and their informal carers
• Palliative care of patients
• Cost-effectiveness and affordability of interventions including ethical concerns

The following neurodegenerative diseases are included in the call:

• Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
• Parkinson’s disease and PD‐related disorders
• Prion diseases
• Motor neuron diseases
• Huntington’s disease
• Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)
• Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

This will be a two-step call, expected to be launched in early January 2018, with a likely pre-proposal submission deadline in March 2018.

Further details will be provided with the official launch of the call.

Bloodwise – Call for Applications

Bloodwise is the UK’s specialist blood cancer research charity dedicated to improving the lives of people living with and beyond blood cancer. The charity’s research is targeted at understanding more about blood cancer, finding causes, improving diagnosis and treatments, and running ground-breaking clinical trials for patients.

We are pleased to announce that our project grants scheme is open. Projects are for up to £250,000 and up to three years for clearly defined research projects addressing key questions in the field of blood cancer. The remit of the project grant scheme also includes research projects that maximise the value and outcome of a clinical trial.

The deadline for project grant applications is 4:00pm on Thursday 15 February 2018.

More information and details on how to apply are available on our website.

Please pass on this announcement to relevant people.

Bloodwise Research

research@bloodwise.org.uk

11 January 2018, 4pm

12 July 2018, 4pm

MRC Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) Scheme

https://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/public-health-intervention-development-scheme/public-health-intervention-development-scheme-phind-jan-2018/

This scheme runs twice a year and is for up to £150K for up to 18 months.

The MRC Public Health Intervention Development scheme (PHIND) supports projects that will develop innovative new interventions that address an important UK or global public health issue, and seeks to encourage a novel, high risk approach to intervention development. Complex, population level interventions, with a focus on non-health care settings (such as: transport, education, employment, leisure and the built environment), are considered particularly suitable. Health care settings are not excluded, but projects should demonstrate potential for improved health of general, high risk or vulnerable populations.  In addition, proposals that align with the NIHR Public Health Research Programme or for MRC Global Health schemes are particularly welcomed.

Proposals should address the early stage of development of new interventions including qualitative and quantitative primary research, developing theory and designing the intervention.

Examples of the types of research within scope are:

• defining the intervention
• specifying content
• developing theory
• modelling process and outcomes such as developing logic models
• identifying components and their inter-relationships
• developing procedures and protocols
• creation of new interventions where active components of existing interventions are recombined to create a new intervention

Where appropriate, investigators are strongly encouraged to include user participation in their developmental study, as absence of user engagement at an early stage can reduce the success of the intervention.

We are pleased to announce that the Medical Research Council has launched a further call to support ‘rising star’ African Research Leaders. This is a prestigious award, jointly funded by the MRC and the Department for International Development (DFID). The aim of the scheme is to strengthen research leadership across sub-Saharan Africa by attracting and retaining exceptionally talented individuals who will lead high quality programmes of research on key global health issues pertinent to the region and beyond.

Please see the link below for further information on the scheme and guidance on how to apply:

https://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/arl-2018/mrc-dfid-african-research-leader-scheme-2018/

Please could I ask you to pass this email on to anyone who you think might be interested in this scheme. Many thanks.

Please direct any queries to ARLadmin@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk

We are pleased to announce the next round of our annual Daniel Turnberg UK/Middle East Travel Fellowships. This scheme, developed in partnership with The Daniel Turnberg Memorial Fund, is designed to encourage collaboration between medical and biomedical researchers in the UK and the Middle East.

These short-term fellowships will provide early and mid-career researchers with the opportunity to gain additional research experience, learn new techniques, and foster international scientific collaboration. The scheme is now open with the deadline for applications on 11th January 2018.

All scheme enquiries being directed towards turnberg.fellowships@acmedsci.ac.uk.

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18875 FWIS 2018 200×200 flyer

Dear All

I would be grateful if you could circulate details of this year’s L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards competition.

The Funder has sent the above flyer and poster for distribution.

5 x 12 month Fellowships worth £15,000 are available for outstanding female postdoctoral researchers.

The closing date is 16 February 2018.

Candidates must be female early career researchers who have already been awarded their research doctorate in the fields of life, physical and computer sciences, engineering and mathematics.

Candidates must have no more than 10 years’ active full-time equivalent postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks, but including teaching  experience and/or time spent in industry).

Candidates must not currently  hold, have ever held, or have received the promise of, a permanent academic post.

Candidates must be undertaking research in the life or physical sciences, engineering or mathematics.

Psychology, science education and social sciences are not eligible for this Fellowship.

If you intend to make an application to this competition please inform Gwen Averley gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk.

With many thanks

Gwen