Deadline: 14 September 2017
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is seeking applications for its programme entitled “Confidence in Global Nutrition and Health Research” under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
The purpose of this call is to provide institutional “pump-priming” funds to lay the grounds for future large scale, multidisciplinary, cross-country global nutrition and health research bids addressing issues of primary relevance to LMICs.
Programme Goals
- Develop new research strategies to tackle nutrition and health challenges that are relevant to LMICs in the short, medium and long-term;
- Develop new UK-LMIC research partnerships or capitalise on existing ones;
- Identify opportunities and assess feasibility of large-scale global nutrition and health research projects in partnership with LMICs;
- Extend scope of existing research to LMIC settings;
- Apply novel / potentially high-risk approaches to nutrition research, with opportunities for multidisciplinary approaches;
- Produce preliminary data and develop concepts for future grant applications;
- Create pathways to impact in LMICs.
Subject Areas
- Mechanistic understanding
- Nutrition through the life course
- Understanding of nutrition and dietary patterns
- Nutritional Interventions
- Methodologies
Funding Information
Institutions may apply for an award up to £200,000 MRC funding for the duration of up to 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The main applicant must be a UK research organization (including MRC Units and Institutes) and all funding is to be managed through that organization. It is expected that applications will be led by one or more senior members of the institution.
- UK research organizations can only lead on one application, but individual researchers from any given institution may be named co-applicants on other proposals.
- LMIC-based researchers are invited to apply as co-applicants. LMIC-based researchers may be affiliated with higher education institutions, non-profit research institutions or non-governmental organizations. The programme encourages LMIC-based researchers to make contacts with researchers based at UK research institutions, and vice versa, to discuss opportunities for partnerships in global nutrition and health research.
- Industrial collaborators are welcomed. The role and contribution of industrial collaborators must be clearly explained, with special emphasis on the benefit to LMICs.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit MRC.