Team Grant : UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team Grants – Full Application
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Wednesday 18th, September 2019
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 19th, September 2019
External Deadline: Wednesday 25th, September 2019
Description
BY INVITATION ONLY
SIRI will be offering support with application development for this opportunity. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Jennifer Stevens (v5js@mun.ca) early during the development process to discuss the services available to them.
As Canada’s health research investment agency, CIHR collaborates with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve the health of Canadians and strengthen the Canadian health care system. CIHR has, as part of its mission, a strategic commitment to lead, stimulate and facilitate effective Canadian international involvement in health research that benefits Canadians and the global community. The MRC and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are committed to forming strategic partnerships that will lead to world-leading collaborative research, and to enable UK scientists to engage with the best minds, ideas and resources wherever they are located.
Through the UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team Grants, MRC, ESRC and CIHR aim to accelerate diabetes research into mechanisms and translational solutions to improve the lives of people with diabetes in Canada and the UK through research funding for approximately six internationally competitive and innovative UK-Canada Diabetes Research Teams that will enable the pursuit of shared research interests.
The focus of the collaborative projects will be upon ‘mechanisms and translational solutions’. Projects should focus on one or more of the following key diabetes knowledge gaps:
Genetic variability
Molecular mechanisms, including immune-mediated beta cell injury
Human implementation pilot studies to reverse type 2 diabetes through physical activity and nutrition, including. Applications that include researchers with expertise in the social sciences are welcome, in addition to biomedical researchers. Social scientists can bring an understanding of, for example, individual behaviour, economic evaluation, inequalities, the wider political economy, and wider environmental influences.
Where applicable, researchers must provide justification that animal models proposed have the capacity to provide insights into mechanisms relevant to human diabetes and/or other information that will facilitate translation to human diabetes mellitus, consistent with the goal of this call.
This funding opportunity is meant to focus on research applicable to UK and Canadian settings, not on global health
Funds Available
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is approximately 3,600,000 GBP*.
Of this approximately 3,600,000 GBP:
The total amount available for this funding opportunity from CIHR is $2,700,000 CAD, enough to fund the Canadian component of approximately 6 grants. The maximum amount per grant is $150,000 per year for up to 3 years, for a total of $450,000 CAD per grant.
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- The total amount available for this funding opportunity from MRC/ESRC is 2,000,000 GBP. MRC and ESRC will provide funding for the UK-based applicants under standard arrangements at 80% for Full Economic Costs (FEC). UK-based applicants will be able to request up to a maximum of 333,333 GBP per research project to cover the UK component.
* $2.7M CAD converted @ 0.5748 = £1.6M
- The total amount available for this funding opportunity from MRC/ESRC is 2,000,000 GBP. MRC and ESRC will provide funding for the UK-based applicants under standard arrangements at 80% for Full Economic Costs (FEC). UK-based applicants will be able to request up to a maximum of 333,333 GBP per research project to cover the UK component.
- For additional information see Research Net