Funding opportunity for the establishment of an integrated UK Rare Disease Research Platform: nodes
Funders: Medical Research Council
Co-funders: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Funding is available to coordinate and address tractable challenges in rare diseases and achieve a step change in the mechanistic understanding, diagnosis and therapy of rare diseases.
This is the outline stage.
Opening Date 19 August 2022
Closing Date 8 November 2022 16:00 UK time
Nodes must:
- Provide coordination as part of a wider UK Rare Disease Research Platform
- Connect the full spectrum of basic, clinical and translational research to stakeholders
- Enable focused progress on defined topics.
MRC and NIHR will fund £12 million in total, for around 10 nodes.
Typical funding requests will be in the range of £800,000 to £1 million. The maximum cost that can be requested from the funders is up to £1.25 million, typically funded at 80% of the full economic cost.
Funding is available for five years.
Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding
Full details are available from the UKRI website
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/establish-an-integrated-uk-rare-disease-research-platform-nodes/
UK Rare Disease Research Platform webinar
When
7 September 2022 14:00 to 15:00 UK time
Webinar to introduce the above MRC and National Institute for Health and Care Research funding opportunity to form a UK Rare Disease Research Platform.
UK Rare Disease Research Platform webinar – UKRI
Register to attend