Applications open for resource, equipment and technology grants

3 August 2012

The 2012 annual competition is now open for biomedical resource, technology development and multi-user equipment grant applications, as part of the Wellcome Trust’s themed Strategic Awards.

Biomedical resource and technology development grants support researchers wishing to establish a new resource or technology, or to refine and maintain and existing resource or technology, for the benefit of the wider scientific community. Applications should take into account the needs of the wider research community and should be supported by evidence of need for the resource.

Multi-user equipment grants support items of equipment that have multiple users, including equipment required to create a central resource for a number of disparate scientific programmes. Applicants should demonstrate how the requested equipment would enhance Trust-funded investments in strategic areas of interest and add value to Trust-funded research.

The deadline for preliminary applications is 1 October 2012. Applications will be considered by a themed Strategic Awards Committee in May 2013.

Image: A time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS), used for high-throughput screening of polymer arrays. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.