Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM Call 6)

https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/gemm/genome-editing-mice-for-medicine/

https://www.har.mrc.ac.uk/international-programmes/gemms

Deadline 25^th October 2019

MRC has committed up to £4.5m over 5 years to the Mary Lyon Centre to administer the Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM) funding scheme.

This will exploit the Centre’s expertise to deliver novel mouse lines to advance knowledge of human disease and/or be of wide use in biomedical science.

The UK academic research community is invited to nominate mouse lines for production and outline their own experimental plans for them.

GEMM Call 6 is a full call open to nominations for mouse lines carrying bespoke indels, deletions, point mutations, conditionals and cassette knock-ins.

Nominations will be assessed by a cross-discipline panel of experts across two key themes:

• The nominator’s own research hypotheses and specific research plans for the mouse.
• The beneficial impact the proposed novel mouse line will have on the wider academic community.

This award will financially support mouse line generation and archiving, but not the nominator’s own experimental research costs.

Applicants will therefore be asked to describe the funding in place to support their proposed downstream work.

Successfully-generated mouse lines will be made publicly-available through the European Mouse Mutant Archive.

If you are interested in applying, please ensure to read the full call guidance available through the links above and also the GEMM 6 guide (pdf available via links).

Details of how to apply are given in the GEMM 6 guide.

2020 Notice

2019 Prizewinners

2020 Terms and Conditions.doc

Lister Institute Research Prizes 2020

https://www.lister-institute.org.uk/what-are-the-research-prizes/

Deadline: Friday 27 September 2019

The Lister Institute’s research prizes are awarded as lump sums of £250,000 which must be spent within a five-year period.

The Institute currently receives around 100 applications for the six prizes. From these, approximately 20 candidates are long-listed and up to 12 are then interviewed.

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

Anyone who is thinking of applying should contact Gwen Averley (gwen.averley@newcastle.ac.uk) and Darren Airey (darren.airey@newcastle.ac.uk) before making an application.

2020 Sir Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research

https://julesthorntrust.org.uk/programmes/medical-research/the-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 2^nd 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 –2^nd 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 – 31^st October 2019

Full stage deadline for selected nominee – 30^th April 2020

AMS FLIER Programme Expression of Interest Form

The Academy of Medical Sciences has launched its second annual call for the  Future Leaders in Innovation, Enterprise and Research (FLIER) Programme
https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/mentoring-and-other-schemes/FLIER

People are invited to complete an Expression of Interest for the internal selection process (as detailed below) if they wish to apply to be part of this programme.

The Programme

Please note that this is not intended as a general leadership programme but is aimed to develop leaders of the future who can create collaborations across academia, industry, the NHS and government to drive innovation across the life sciences sector – i.e. researchers who need to work cross-sector

The Individual

• They are looking for individuals in the middle of their career, established within their own sector, with the seniority to effect organisational change and to undertake a cross-sector project currently or in the near future.
• Participants will have an emerging vision of how cross-sector working and collaboration could help maximise opportunities and solve the future challenges of research and healthcare. They will be looking to explore and shape their vision in dialogue with colleagues across sectors.
• They are looking for key characteristics including motivation, vision and potential to make a difference and lead change across the sectors, learning agility, and creative, innovative and radical thinking.
• Participants will be active in the research endeavour of the organisation in which they are working and will therefore have a wide range of outputs depending on the setting. Participants may have portfolio careers, but even if they are not spending all their time on research, we would expect this to be a key element of their role.

The first cohort of 17, which included Dr Niina Kolehmainen in IHS, can be seen here:

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/mentoring-and-other-schemes/FLIER/flier-round-1-participants

Dr Niina Kolehmainen is, very kindly, willing to discuss her experience of participating in the first FLIER cohort, so those thinking of applying are encouraged to contact her in advance of making their application.

The employer has to commit to contributing £5,000, excl. VAT. towards the cost of the two year programme and, therefore we are holding this internal selection process.

Participants are expected to organise and fund their own travel.
Note that FLIER will provide accommodation for the residential workshops and some contribution to increased childcare during workshops.

Applicants must check that they are available for the specified dates of the events within the FLIER programme.

Selected applicants have to complete an application form, a two-page CV and upload a three minute video outlining the cross-sector work-based project that they would like to carry out as part of the FLIER programme.
These have to be submitted via Flexi-Grant by 5pm on Thursday 19 September 2019.

For the internal selection process, please send the following documents

• a completed Expression of Interest Form (see attachment)
• a 2-page CV covering education, past employment, major relevant contributions and achievements, such as key publications and patents, funding awards, prizes and awards, patents, spin-offs, commercialisation of products, evidence of impact, etc.

To Gwen Averley gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk by 1pm on Tuesday 13 August

RAEng Research Fellowships 2019 – Big Pitch Form

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships 2019/20 – Internal selection process

The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships, and Engineering for Development Fellowships, opportunity for 2020 is open, see https://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/grants/support-for-research/raeng-research-fellowship.

The fellowships support early career post-doctoral researchers (with up to 4 year post-doc experience, excluding leave). The scheme provides funding for five years to encourage the best researchers in engineering to become research leaders in their specialised areas.

As institutions can only make a limited number of applications, the University will hold an internal selection process as detailed in the attached document.

The internal deadline for submitting your ‘Big Pitch’ form (please find attached) and CV for the internal selection process is midday on Thursday 1 August 2019.

Details on the internal selection process will be outlined at a briefing session on 18 July, from 1.00-2.30pm, Armstrong Building, Seminar room 3.41. Interested applicants are expected to attend.

Any queries may be addressed to Jarlath McKenna <Jarlath.mckenna@newcastle.ac.uk>. Please let him know if you wish to attend the briefing session, or if you plan to submit to the internal selection process but cannot attend the briefing.

I am pleased to let you know that the Versus Arthritis round for PhD Scholarships is now open with a deadline of 4pm on Wednesday 18^th September.  Further details can be found on our website https://www.versusarthritis.org/research/information-for-applicants/types-of-grant/

Please note that although the closing date for full applications is 5^th September, there is a compulsory intention to submit form that must be submitted by 22 July.

5 September 2019, 4pm                22 July 2019 (Intention to submit)

NEWTON FUND MRC South Africa-UK Antibiotic Accelerator Initiative

https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/sa-uk-aai/south-africa-uk-antibiotic-accelerator-initiative/

The UK MRC and South African MRC (SAMRC) are pleased to invite proposals to the South Africa – UK Antibiotic Accelerator under the umbrella of the Newton Fund.

This initiative will provide funding for high quality collaborative research partnerships focused on addressing the growing global burden of antimicrobial resistance, specifically antibacterial resistance in (South) Africa, through drug discovery.

In total, the MRC will make up to £2 million available to support the antibiotic accelerator over a 3-year period. The UK contribution will be matched by SAMRC who will provide up to R24 million.

Through this initiative, the funders are seeking to support a genuinely collaborative SA-UK Antibiotic Accelerator composed of hubs in the UK and South Africa, with integrated opportunities for capacity building. Bids should seek to build on existing collaborations, initiatives, databases, novel chemistry and compound libraries were possible, and propose a robust governance and management structure that will ensure the sustainability of the Accelerator.

The pre-competitive development and testing of new compounds as well as a pipeline of validated compounds and the sharing of relevant chemical matter targeting bacterial strains of greatest public health concern to South Africa are particularly encouraged. Applications with innovative approaches to assay development, high throughput compound screening and lead development with scope for expansion if and when opportunities arise will be prioritised. The final accelerator will include multiple geographically distributed groups focusing on different work packages with a robust overarching governance mechanism to ensure equitable distribution of funds in line with the objective of the initiative.

The following pathogens, relevant to the context of AMR in South Africa are within the remit of this call:

• Neisseria gonorrhoeae
• Acinetobacter baumannii
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Enterobacteriaceae
• Gram-negative carbapenem-resistant pathogens
• Klebsiella pneumoniae
• Campylobacter
• Haemophilus influenzae
• Helicobacter pylori
• Salmonella spp, in particular S.typhi
• Shigella spp

N.B. Full applications are conditional on having submitted a compulsory intention to submit. This must be submitted by Monday 22 July, 23:59pm via the online form

https://mrc.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/south-africa-uk-antibiotics-accelerator-initiative

The funding agencies will play a further brokering role in this call, after the intention to submit stage.

For full details please see the full documentation on the URL given above

NU-KESS

(Newcastle University Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series)

Can your research inform local policy?

The Newcastle University Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (NU-KESS) aims to promote evidence led policy making and provides a forum for researchers to present their research findings in a straightforward format on issues that are relevant to local decision makers.

NU-KESS is delivered in partnership with Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council, Northumberland County Council, North Tyneside Council and South Tyneside Council, North East Local Enterprise Partnership (NELEP) and the North East England Chamber of Commerce (NEECC).

Would you like to present your research to local decision makers?

What’s involved?

• Identify which of the ‘Hot Topics’ you will address and submit a 150 word abstract.
• Attend a 1 hour training workshop prior to the seminar to develop your ideas.
• Prepare and deliver a 30 minute presentation (up to a maximum of 20 slides) to an audience of local decision makers.
• Prepare a written 4-5 page policy briefing for dissemination at the event.

Why should I take part?

Benefits to participants include:

• Increased connections and engagement with policy makers.
• Enhanced impact of your research.
• Development of new ideas leading to further research.
• Connecting with other researchers; working on locally relevant topics.

The call for application submissions for the 2019/20 programme is now open and closes at midnight on Wednesday 31^st July.

The call is open to all academics at Newcastle University and we are looking for presentations that relate to the ‘hot topics’ policy makers have identified as a high priority for the local area.

Submissions as a team/group are welcome i.e. may include academics from other institutions; however the lead academic must be from Newcastle University.

If you are interested in taking part please read the guidance document and complete the online form.

Submissions and queries should be sent to:

nu.policyacademy@ncl.ac.uk

Social Justice Fund 2019 – applications now open!

The Newcastle University Social Justice Fund is now open to applications that support work in the field of social justice as part of the University’s Engagement and Place Strategy. 

​​​​​​​Newcastle University is committed to social justice in all that we do and we are dedicated to working together to create a fairer and more just society. The fund will develop a portfolio of successful relationships between the University and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

Funded projects will be focused around one of the following social justice themes:

• Children, youth and lifecourse
• Poverty, welfare and social class
• Race, religion and migration
• Environment, nature and landscape
• Peace, reconciliation and human rights
• Housing, neighbourhood and region
• Gender, sexuality and relationships
• Health, well-being and care
• Education, work and employment

We are particularly interested in applications that will contribute to meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships between the University and VCSE partners and that are co-produced.

What funding is available?
The minimum amount of funding that can be applied for is £2000. The absolute maximum you can apply for is £10,000; however, we envisage that most projects will be around £5000. We would encourage applicants to consider carefully what they want to use the funds for and apply for the appropriate amount rather than the maximum available.  The detail of how the funds will be spent should be included in your application.

What are the assessment criteria?
The Newcastle Social Justice Fund invites proposals from Schools, Research Centres, Institutes and individual academics, including early career researchers and PhD students.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Evidence how key social justice issues have been addressed;
• The project must contribute to, pilot and/or deliver innovations that can be shared or can advance good practice;
• Applications must be submitted in partnership with a VCSE organisation;
• The approach to collaboration will create a meaningful and sustainable partnership;
• Potential for the projects to demonstrate new approaches to collaboration and engagement;
• Potential for the project to contribute to education and student experience;
• Potential for the project to contribute to research impact (that is, research that has societal benefit);
• Potential for the project to generate additional external research income.

Please read the guidance document for full details of the fund and use the application form to submit your application via the online form by Friday 30th August 2019: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=5177710​

NSJF Application Form 2019-20.docx
NSJF Guidance Document 2019-20.docx

For any queries please contact socialjustice@ncl.ac.uk and visit ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/social-justice/ for more information.

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CiC EoI 2019 v2

CiC guidance 2019 v.3

MRC Confidence in Concept – Application Form V.2 2019

The Newcastle MRC Confidence in Concept call is now live, with a closing date for Expressions of Interest of 18th July 2019.

Expressions of Interest will be reviewed by a panel, and those that are invited to submit full applications will be contacted at the end of July, with full applications due by 18 September.

Indicative / estimated costs ONLY are expected at EoI stage. Applications will be assessed on scientific grounds, with the potential to convert the CiC project to downstream translational research grants a key consideration.

The guidance documentation, and both application forms can be downloaded from the Faculty website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/mrc/cic/#currentcall

Should you have any questions, or would like clarification of anything, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With thanks for your time, and best wishes, Sarah

Sarah Greenhalgh

CiC & PtD Programme Manager

Research Project Manager

Faculty of Medical Sciences Project Management Team | Newcastle University Medical School | Framlington Place | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE2 4HH

T:  0191 20 86944

E: sarah.greenhalgh@ncl.ac.uk