Funding Opportunities
Dear colleagues,
Please find below a list of local and external funding opportunities. As usual make sure to click the hyperlinked titles for further information.
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Local Funding
Visiting Scientist Fellowhips
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society are seeking expressions of interest for Visiting Scientist Fellowships which will bring scientists and health care professionals, who want to engage in research and scholarship on social and ethical aspects of health and medicine, into our vibrant community of social science and humanities researchers addressing a range of topics relevant to medicine, health and society. Please send a CV and an expression of interest (of no more than 1/2 page) to cbss@ed.ac.uk.
Deadline: 13 Dec 19
Translational/Collaborative Funding
Collaborative projects - Lundbeck Foundation
This supports integrated, interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects within basic or clinical neuroscience. Grants are worth up to DKK 60 million for five years.
Deadline: 6 Jan 20
British Heart Foundation: Translational Awards
Support for the development of cardiovascular technologies from the proof-of-concept stage to be ready for the commercial market. Awards may be up to £750k
Deadline: 6 Mar 20
Wellcome: Collaborative Awards in Science
Funding to promote the development of new ideas and speed the pace of discovery, supporting teams of researchers, consisting of independent research groups, working together on the most important scientific problems which can only be solved through collaboration. Budget: £4M.
Deadline: 21 Apr 20
Fellowships
Wellcome/Royal Society: Sir Henry Dale Fellowships
Funding for postdoctoral researchers in biomedical science to become independent scientists leading their own groups. Awards cover salary and research expenses.
Deadline: 30 Jan 20
BrainsCAN postdoctoral fellowship programme – cognitive neuroscience
Western University, under its BrainsCAN initiative, invites applications for its postdoctoral fellowship programme.
This supports postdoctoral research in cognitive neuroscience. Two types of awards are available:
• tier 1 fellowships – between two and six years of postdoctoral experience, worth CAD 75,000 per year for three years with the possibility of an additional two years;
• tier 2 fellowships – no more than two years of postdoctoral experience, worth CAD 58,000 per year for two years with the possibility of an additional year.
Applicants may have received their doctoral degree no more than six years before application. They may be of any nationality and have pursued education in any country. Up to 10 fellowships may be funded. All fellowships include employment insurance, pension, healthcare spending and parental leave.
Deadline: 1 Feb 20
Wellcome: Clinical Research Career Development Fellowships
Funding for clinically active healthcare professionals to continue their research at postdoctoral level and develop scientific independence. Awards cover salary and research expenses.
Deadline: 4 Feb 20
Wellcome: Senior Research Fellowships
Support for independent researchers emerging as global leaders in their field, who want to tackle the most important questions in science. Budget: covers salary and research expenses, typically for 5 years.
Deadline: 27 Feb 20
Seedcorn Funding
Joseph Altman award in developmental neuroscience
The Japan Neuroscience Society invites applications for the Joseph Altman award in developmental neuroscience. This supports research in developmental neuroscience at the tissue and cellular levels. The scope of the award includes phenomena during foetal or developmental stages as well as adult neurogenesis, its biological significance and its changes resulting from ageing and diseases.
Researchers who have received their doctorate degree within the past 20 years may apply. Applicants must submit three articles, one of which must have been published within five years of the application deadline. The fellowship includes a cash prize worth USD 10,000. Travel and accommodation funds are provided to overseas researchers to make an award lecture at the JNS annual meeting.
Deadline: 31 Jan 20
Wellcome: Investigator Awards in Science
Support for independent investigators with a compelling research vision to tackle the most important questions in science. Budget: £3M.
Deadline: 27 Feb 20
MRC: Applied Global Health research board
The Medical Research Council is establishing a research board in Applied Global Health. It will fund global health research embedded within local contexts in low- and middle-income countries. Further details will be released when the call launches in January, but deadlines for a two stage application process have been announced.
Deadline: 7 Apr 20
Project Funding
Support for SMEs to evaluate innovative medical technologies - Innovate UK, GB
This supports the evaluation of innovative medical devices, diagnostics and regulated digital health products in a real world clinical setting. Grants are worth up to £50,000 to plan or prepare for a study and up to £250,000 to collect clinical performance and cost-effectiveness data.
Deadline: 11 Dec 19
IICN Grants
The Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience invites applications for its grants. These support research and educational activities in the clinical neurosciences. All areas of clinical neuroscience are supported. Grants may serve to support a larger research project, for example by financing MRI slots or a specific piece of equipment for a larger study, or may be used more broadly for an educational project, for example travel to learn a new technique to incorporate into a project. Members in good standing may apply. The project must be conducted at a centre in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. Two grants, worth up to €20,000 each, are available.
Deadline: 15 Dec 19
Applications for its CAJAL advanced neuroscience training programme courses stipends – advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, in collaboration with the Bordeaux Imaging Center, invites applications for its CAJAL advanced neuroscience training programme courses stipends – advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience. These enable early-career researchers to participate in a training course held at Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, France from 23 March to 10 April 2020. The course will allow attendees to participate in lectures, seminars, hands-on practical training and group assignments. Four stipends worth up to €3,500 each are available.
Deadline: 16 Dec 19
MRC/AHRC/ESRC Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind: Engagement Awards
Engagement Awards are awards of up to 12 months aimed at building and strengthening a cross-disciplinary community in the research area of adolescence, mental health and the developing mind. These are flexible awards focused on establishing new collaborations, exploring innovative new research directions, and building relationships with key stakeholders. For more information and to apply, please click the hyperlinked title.
Deadline: 17 Dec 19
Stroke Association Project Grant Awards 2019-20
The Stroke Association are inviting applications for our Project Grant Awards 2019-20 for stroke research. The Stroke Association Project Grant awards are available to researchers across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Funding of up to £250,000 is available for up to 3 years.
Deadline: 4 Feb 20
Brain Research UK Project Grant - call for applications
Brain Research UK invites applications for its project grants. These support translational research projects that address areas of large unmet need and demonstrate a clear pathway to clinical impact in diseases of the nervous system. Mechanistic-based research proposals may focus on the following priority areas: acquired brain and spinal cord injury, neuro-oncology, headache and facial pain. Proposals must be submitted by a UK academic institution such as university, hospital or research institute. International collaborations led by a UK team are also eligible. PhD students may also be funded. Request for research infrastructure support may be supported as well. Grants are worth up to £300,000 each for up to three years.
Deadline: 25 Feb 20
Travel Grants
Genomics of brain disorders conference bursaries - Wellcome Trust
These enable PhD students to attend the genomics of brain disorders conference, to be held from 18 to 20 March 2020. Bursaries cover up to 50 per cent of the registration fee.
Deadline: 7 Jan 20
Investigator awards - European Academy of Neurology, EUR
These recognise poster or oral presentations on neurology at the academy’s congress, to be held from 23 to 26 May 2020 in Paris, France. Up to 20 awards are available, each including waived registration fee to the academy’s congress in 2021.
Deadline: 8 Jan 20
Gerry Farrell travelling scholarships
These support travel in pursuit of identified research objectives, namely music education and music psychology, in the UK or abroad. Four scholarships, totalling £4,000, are offered each year. No deadline.
IBRO-RIKEN Center for Brain Science summer programme
The International Brain Research Organization, in partnership with the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, invites applications for its summer programme. This supports young neuroscientists and emerging researchers in furthering themselves in the neuroscience community. The summer programme is held just outside Tokyo in between 18 June and 21 August 2020. Applicants may be enrolled in graduate courses, postdoctoral research or may hold other position. Students unable to provide their own financial support are considered for bursaries.
Deadline: 31 Jan 20
BNA Bursaries to attend STEM for Britain 2020 at the Houses of Parliament
The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) will award up to £100 'Credibility in Neuroscience' travel bursaries to three abstracts accepted by the organisers of STEM for Britain 2020, the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (P&SC). For more information on the STEM for Britain 2020 poster event and eligibility, please click on the hyperlinked title.
Deadline: 31 Jan 20
IBRO-PERC workshops, conferences and meetings support
The International Brain Research Organisation’s Pan-European Regional Committee invites applications for its workshops, conferences and meetings support. These partially fund meetings, workshops, and symposia on topics in neuroscience taking place between 1 April and 30 September 2020. Preference is given to activities that include younger scientists and offer training for scientists from countries with limited resources for research or teaching, and to events with both scientific content and an outreach component. Priority is given to applications of very strong scientific background and the national society meetings in the former eastern and central European countries. Grants are worth up to €4,000 each.
Deadline: 17 Feb 20
Summer school in bioinformatics bursaries
Wellcome, via Wellcome Genome Campus and in collaboration with EMBL-EBI, invites applications for its summer school in bioinformatics bursaries. These enable students to attend the summer school in bioinformatics, to be held between 22 and 26 June 2020 at the Wellcome Genome Campus. The programme will focus on bioinformatics theory and practice, including best practices for undertaking bioinformatics analysis, data management and reproducibility.
Individuals working across biological sciences who have little or no experience in bioinformatics may apply. Applicants are expected to be at an early stage of using bioinformatics in their research with the need to develop their skills and knowledge further. No previous knowledge of programming or coding is required for this course. Bursaries cover up to 50 per cent of the registration fee.
Deadline: 2 Mar 20
Other types of funding
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Excellent paper in neuroscience award
**The closing date for this opportunity has been extended. The previous deadline of 1 October has been extended to 20 December 2019. All other call details remain unchanged.**
ERA-NET Neuron II invites submissions for its excellent paper in neuroscience award. This recognises a scientific publication by a young researcher in the field of disease-related, translational, neurosciences. Pre- or postdoctoral researchers who completed their PhD dissertation less than five years ago, may apply. Applicants must be first authors of papers published between 1 January and 31 December 2018. The award includes a prize worth €3,000 as well as travel costs related to the attendance of a workshop to hold a lecture.
Deadline: 20 Dec 19
Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation
The foundation is a privately funded research charity organisation with the exclusive aim to promote basic and clinical research related to spinal cord injury with the perspective to improve outcomes. The foundation offers:
Individual grants: intended to cover the salary of teh applicant. The goal of these grants is to encourage researchers to develop new ideas and/or to transfer their efforts of other areas into spinal cord research.
Project research grants: intended to sustain a full research project, in which funds cover personnel, equipment, and consumables.
Wings for Life Accelerated Translational Program (ATP) (clinical trials): intended to assist applicants to find the best way forward in clinical translation of high caliber, promising therapies. To find out more about the funding available and to apply, please click the hyperlinked title.
Alzheimer's Research UK - Grant Schemes available
ARUK has a large number of different grant schemes through which you can apply for funding. All applications must comply with ARUK's remit which covers biomedical research in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. There are several grants with upcoming deadlines. Click on the hyperlinked title for more information on different grants available.
Public engagement partnerships between libraries and researchers
Engaging Libraries Phase 2, a programme provided by the Carnegie UK Trust, Wellcome and the Wolfson Foundation, offers funding and support to public libraries to run public engagement activities on research with topics such as health, society and culture. For more information on collaborating with libraries on a project, please click the hyperlinked title.
Young investigator paper awards clinical neurophysiology - International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, INT
This recognises a research paper published in the Clinical Neurophysiology journal. The award is worth €5,000.
Deadline: 31 Jan 20
Arnold Bentley new initiatives fund - Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
This supports new, interdisciplinary initiatives concerned with the advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education. One award, worth up to £3,000, is available each year. No deadline.
Personal and public involvement in research - support small grant scheme - Public Health Agency
This enables people working in health and social care research to access resources to help them implement personal and public involvement in their projects. Awards are worth up to £2,500 each. No deadline.
Professional internships for PhD students - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
These enable the council’s doctoral training partnership PhD students to carry out a work placement unrelated to their doctoral research during their PhD, and gain experience of working in corporate policy and strategy, science and innovation policy, public engagement or project management at the BBSRC Swindon office. Up to eight placements per year are available, each tenable for three months. No deadline.
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