Deadline: 23-May-25
The Gilead Fellowship and Medical Grants Programme supports local innovation and best practices in caring for people living with: HIV, Cancer and Liver disease.
Areas
- HIV
- This year, Gilead are particularly interested in supporting innovative projects focused on HIV prevention and treatment, that support the shared ambition of “Getting to Zero”. Fellowship and Medical Grant funding can be used to support projects and initiatives focusing on the following areas:
- Zero new HIV transmissions:
- Testing initiatives including in non-traditional settings to reduce late diagnosis
- Prevention awareness initiatives or non-traditional healthcare navigators
- Community-led initiatives to increase engagement in prevention and care
- Engaging and enhancing the capacity of Faith Communities to tackle HIV
- Improving wellbeing and reducing stigma towards people living with and at risk of HIV
- Zero difference in HIV-related stigma, health outcomes and quality of life for people living with HIV:
- Delivering innovative community outreach projects that reach populations that need greater health support through engagement, education and empowerment
- Supporting projects that will specifically help tackle inequalities for people living with HIV in healthcare and improve the experiences of people from marginalised communities
- Establishing novel patient support programmes or tools
- Zero persons lost to care:
- Finding and re-engaging people lost to care back within HIV health services
- Identifying, engaging and supporting communities who are at risk of being lost to care
- Implementing strategies to improve retention in care
- Demonstrating the role of a cross-sector approach to supporting people to engage in their care
- Accessing and utilising UKHSA data made available for NHS trusts
- Zero new HIV transmissions:
- This year, Gilead are particularly interested in supporting innovative projects focused on HIV prevention and treatment, that support the shared ambition of “Getting to Zero”. Fellowship and Medical Grant funding can be used to support projects and initiatives focusing on the following areas:
- Cancer (Oncology)
- Gilead are looking to accept applications for any project that supports innovation and best practice sharing with the aim to improve care and/or reduce inequalities in the field of oncology. Priority will be given to projects focussing on solid tumours, particularly breast cancer. Funding can be used to support a variety of projects including, but not limited to:
- Setting up new infrastructure for better diagnosis or detection of disease, or prediction or monitoring of safety and efficacy outcomes to treatment including increased disease awareness in primary care and amongst members of the public
- Establishing novel patient support programmes or tools
- New protocols to facilitate improved efficiency in patient care pathways
- Frameworks to improve monitoring of patient-reported outcome measures or quality of life instruments or educational tools for patients and carers
- Gilead are looking to accept applications for any project that supports innovation and best practice sharing with the aim to improve care and/or reduce inequalities in the field of oncology. Priority will be given to projects focussing on solid tumours, particularly breast cancer. Funding can be used to support a variety of projects including, but not limited to:
- Liver disease
- The Liver Disease Fellowship and Medical Grants programme will support innovative projects and initiatives that ultimately lead to an Improved awareness and diagnosis of liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis (B, C and delta) and primary biliary cholangitis. They are accepting applications in the following areas:
- Improved awareness and diagnosis of liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis (B, C and delta) and primary biliary cholangitis
- Optimised linkage to care and/or management of people living with liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis (B, C and Delta) and primary cholangitis, including peer support
- Better understanding of, and reduction in, variations in care for people living with liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis, and improved experiences of people from marginalised communities
- Improved use of data to diagnose people with liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis and PBC and identify those lost to follow up
- Better understanding of quality-of-life implications for people living with PBC
- Societal and health economic implications of the burden of reduced quality of life related to PBC and HDV
- The Liver Disease Fellowship and Medical Grants programme will support innovative projects and initiatives that ultimately lead to an Improved awareness and diagnosis of liver diseases, with a focus on viral hepatitis (B, C and delta) and primary biliary cholangitis. They are accepting applications in the following areas:
Eligibility Criteria
- Note that applications are invited from healthcare and third sector organisations in the UK and Ireland only.
- Applicants are required to demonstrate how their innovative, high-impact project meets the specified, measurable criteria in order to be awarded funding. Successful applicants are expected to communicate progress of their project, and to present their findings at the end of the funding period. Note: – grant funding is provided for only one year of the project’s duration at a time.
Deadlines
- HIV: 23rd May 2025
- Cancer: 15th August 2025
- Liver diseases: 18 July 2025
For more information, visit Gilead.