Grantholders’ News
Issue 29: May 2012
Contents
Funding opportunities
2. Improved flexibility of Wellcome Trust senior biomedical schemes
3. Re-launched: International Engagement Awards
4. New: International Recruitment Supplement
5. Changes to the Health Innovation Challenge Fund
7. Forthcoming application deadlines
Grant-related updates
9. Engaging Science grant applications now on eGrants
Other updates
10. Extraordinary Opportunities, the Wellcome Trust Strategic Plan 2010–2020: progress to date
11. Brains: The mind as matter
12. Malaria portfolio review: 1990-2009
13. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute survey
1. Investigator Awards update
See Investigator Award application and award statistics and find out about the applications and awards made for the third round. The next full application closing date is 20 July 2012. Details of funded Investigator Award holders and the areas they are working in are now available.
Funding updates
2. Improved flexibility of Wellcome Trust senior biomedical schemes
We are aligning Principal and Senior Research Fellowships with Investigator Awards and increasing the number of funding opportunities for Fellowship candidates. Read more.
3. Re-launched: International Engagement Awards
Funding projects to support Wellcome Trust-funded researchers in low- and middle-income countries to engage the public and/or policy makers with biomedical and health research. Read more.
4. New: International Recruitment Supplement
The newly launched IRS is designed to reduce the barriers to recruiting the best biomedical scientists to the UK academic community by contributing, in partnership with the host organisation, to start-up packages and other costs associated with their recruitment. Read more.
5. Changes to the Health Innovation Challenge Fund
The scheme is moving away from the themed call approach and will instead invite proposals across various research topics. Next application deadline: 14 May 2012.
6. New: Pathfinder Awards
A new scheme designed to support academic-industry partnerships for early-stage applied research and development projects in orphan and neglected disease areas. Read more.
7. Forthcoming application deadlines
14 May/24 September:
Senior Research Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Science
14 May/24 September:
Senior Research Fellowships in Clinical Science
14 May/24 September:
International Senior Research Fellowships
14 May/24 September:
Senior Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
4 June:
WT/MIT Postdoctoral Fellowships
15 June:
Research Training Fellowships
20 July:
Broadcast Development Awards
27 July:
People Awards
27 July:
Small Arts Awards
6 August:
Master’s Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
13 August:
International Engagement Awards
3 September:
Starter Grants for clinical lecturers
Grant-related updates
8. Grant inflation rate
From 1 April 2012, the new annual compound inflation rate for new UK grant awards will be 1.3 per cent per year. Read more.
9. Engaging Science grant applications now on eGrants
Application forms for People Awards and Small Arts Awards are now available on eGrants. Applicants and organisations for these schemes will need to register on eGrants. Organisations currently registered on eGrants may wish to update their Head of Department lists to reflect the wider range of potential applicants. Contact the eGrants helpdesk for advice.
Other updates
10. Extraordinary Opportunities, the Wellcome Trust Strategic Plan 2010–2020: progress to date
An update that provides an overview of the progress we have made to further our vision in the past two years.
11. Brains: The mind as matter
Our major free exhibition seeks to explore what humans have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change. 29 March-17 June 2012.
12. Malaria portfolio review: 1990-2009
To coincide with World Malaria Day, we have launched our review of malaria research over the past 20 years, which looks at our role in the field, identifying key breakthroughs and challenges, and providing expert reflections in the field. Download the full report.
13. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute survey
Sanger Institute researchers are conducting an international study to explore the ethical implications of whole genome evaluation. Find out more and take part.
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