Deadline: 24 July 2018
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and Kementerian Riset Teknologi Dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia (RISTEKDIKTI) are currently inviting applicants for its UK-Indonesia Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases through the Newton Fund.
The objective of this initiative is to deliver research funding for internationally competitive and innovative collaborative projects between scientists from Indonesia and the UK to enable the pursuit of shared research interests.
The funders encourage hypothesis-driven research proposals (which may build on insight gained from the previous UK-Indonesia Newton Fund call) including, but not limited to, the following:
- pharmaceutical technology:
- small molecule drug discovery
- vaccine development via high-quality fundamental science
- cellular regenerative medicine (including stem cell technology)
- biosimilars and blood product development
- medical devices and diagnostics:
- in vivo diagnostics (IVD) for detection of infectious diseases and associated biomarkers
- development of diagnostic electro-medical devices.
Funding Information
In total, up to approximately £2,370,000 of funding will be made available for this initiative: up to £2m of MRC funding and up to 7,200,000,000 Rupiah (approximately £370,000) from RISTEKDIKTI.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call will fund partnerships between UK and Indonesia based researchers working in the area of Infectious Diseases of relevance to Indonesia.
- For support under this call, applicants must be eligible to apply for funding from their respective country’s funding agency:
- MRC:
- For the UK participants, standard UKRI eligibility criteria as described on the UKRI website will apply. Research organisations that are eligible to apply to the MRC, for example MRC units and institutes may apply to this call.
- Indonesia:
- Indonesian PI must meet the conditions
- Applicants must be Indonesian citizens and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute in Indonesia
- The Indonesian PI must be based at a higher education institution/university. Researchers who are based at a research institution may join the project as co-investigator
- Applications cannot be accepted from principal investigators in commercial organisations
- Applicants must be competent in oral and written English.
How to Apply
Full applications must be submitted by UK PI’s on behalf of both UK and Indonesian PIs to MRC via the Je-S application system via given website.
For more information, please visit MRC.