Wednesday, August 17, 2016

NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01)

Purpose and areas of focus 

  • support for innovative research in biomedical informatics
  • informatics problem areas in the application domains of health care, public health, basic biomedical research, bioinformatics, biological modeling, translational research and health information management in disasters
  • informatics projects of interest to NLM involve the application of computer and information sciences concepts to information problems in a biomedical domain
  • also supports research projects focused on biomedical (rather than informatics) research questions, but approached exclusively by novel or advanced informatics techniques applied to information and data produced by others.
  • high priority on innovation in the research

Scope of NLM's research interests

  • Information & knowledge processing
  • Advanced information retrieval, knowledge discovery in databases, discovery mining, and other techniques for in silico discovery
  • Incorporation of machine intelligence into decision tools and resources
  • Modeling and presentation approaches to enhance decisions, learning or understanding
  • Innovative approaches for ensuring accuracy, privacy and security of clinical and biomedical research data

Budget - $250,000 per year in direct costs.

Period - maximum project period is 4 years

Eligibility - Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.


Deadline - October 5th 2016 

Full details - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-300.html 

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Master's Scholarships at BRAC University, Bangladesh funded by TDR

TDR supports 7 universities from low- and middle-income countries to provide PhD and Masters degrees focused on implementation research in malaria, TB and neglected tropical diseases to improve health in those regions. 

The supported university for Asia is James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. 

The scheme provides a full academic scholarship. Items covered by the scholarship include full time tuition and board, cost of dissertation research / field work, return air travel from home country to institution and contribution towards the purchase of essential textbooks / learning materials. 

How to apply
  • Interested candidates must apply for admission into the postgraduate programme via the university website  -http://admissions.bracu.ac.bd/academia/admissionRequirement/getAdmissionRequirement/631736
  • Applications and admission enquiries should be sent directly to the institution, TDR will not receive or process applications or enquiries about admissions
Full details 
http://www.who.int/tdr/capacity/strengthening/postgraduate/en/