Experimental Medicine Challenge Grant’ call deadline 31 May 2018
The MRC is pleased to announce the launch of a £10m ‘Experimental Medicine Challenge Grant’ call, which aims to support innovative programmes of research into disease pathophysiology, using humans as the experimental animal.
Remit
All proposals must involve an experimental intervention, or “challenge”, in humans and should be sufficiently ambitious and demanding to warrant funding through this scheme rather than through standard research grant support. Please see the EMCG 2018 webpage, and guidance for applicants, for further details.
Funding Available
The EMCG scheme will support a range of award scales, from smaller, focussed, more exploratory and highly innovative projects (based e.g. on an intellectually sound hypothesis but perhaps lacking extensive pilot data), to larger programmatic awards based on a more substantial platform of evidence.
Application Process and Deadline
There is a two-stage application process: an outline application followed by a full application (by invitation only).
The deadline for outline applications is 31st May 2018. Proposals must be submitted through the Je-S system (open on 3rd April for submissions). If successful at outline stage, applicants will be invited to submit full applications. The deadline for full applications will be in November 2018 (exact date tbc), with decisions in February 2019 (exact date tbc).
Enquires
Before submission of an outline you should contact the MRC Programme Manager for Experimental Medicine, Dr Rebecca Barlow,: rebecca.barlow@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
For other queries please contact: Experimental.Medicine@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk.