Deadline: 19-Aug-20
The Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity is inviting project grant applications for paediatric health research studies focusing on complex or rare diseases.
The call will support research across the spectrum of medical conditions affecting the foetus, neonates and children directly, as well as pregnancy disorders that affect the child. They will also consider applications seeking to understand how COVID-19 affects children, particularly in the context of pre-existing diseases or conditions.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity and Sparks have a shared passion and commitment to support paediatric research nationally. Through their partnership, established in 2017, they are making £2 million available to support project grant applications from researchers across the UK.
All projects must aim to improve understanding of the disease or associated conditions or to improve outcomes for the affected child. Research proposals will be expected to have the potential to lead to new medical developments, such as diagnostic tools or novel interventions, with a clear articulation of the route to clinical application through a combination of clinical and laboratory-based research.
Research Partners
They are also delighted to extend the reach of this call by offering, in association with their research partners, the possibility of joint funding for projects focusing on their respective areas of interest. They therefore specifically welcome any applications that:
- Aim to improve the treatment or quality of life of patients with Acrodysostosis, and particularly welcome research into making a mouse model for Acrodsysostosis Type 2, so that treatments can be found and tested using repurposed drugs. Projects must be able to demonstrate benefit to people with Acrodysostosis.
- Improve understanding, quality of life for those affected by Dravet syndrome including those that investigate and improve treatments in comorbidities associated with Dravet Syndrome.
- Aim to address the cause, diagnosis, understanding and treatment of Krabbe Disease.
- Aim to significantly advance the search to find a cure and/or a treatment for any of the genetic forms of centronuclear and myotubular myopathy, including studies on modifiers of disease progression.
Funding Information
GOSH Charity and Sparks have made £2 million available for this funding call and it is anticipated that a range of proposals from different investigators and institutions across the UK will be eligible for an award. Therefore, applicants are asked to carefully consider their request for funding and whether it represents good value for money. The Charities would not expect applications to exceed £250,000. Funding will be provided for the direct costs of research (such as research staff and consumables) but will not cover consultant programmed activities, the salary-time of the Principal Investigator/team leader or PhD studentships. Projects will have a duration of up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- This is a national funding call and is open to independent researchers based anywhere in the UK.
- As a way of increasing and retaining capacity in this critical research area, they are particularly interested in supporting projects from promising early career researchers. To this end, while they welcome applications from independent researchers at any level of seniority, if a funding decision is required between applications of equivalent quality, those of early career researchers will be prioritised.
- Awards may not be used to support the salaries of the Principal Investigator/team leader.
For more information, visit https://www.gosh.org/what-we-do/grant-funding/apply-grant-funding