Wellcome Trust - Seed Awards in Science

Seed Awards in Science help researchers develop new ideas to make them competitive for larger awards (from Wellcome Trust or other organisations).

Researchers:

• at the start of their independent careers
• who want to develop ideas outside their discipline or area of expertise

are particularly encouraged.

These awards give scope for innovative methodologies and activities, such as:

• pilot and scoping studies
• preliminary data gathering
• proof-of-principle studies
• planning sessions
• collaborative network meetings. 

Seed Awards in Science are not for:

• discrete projects with no follow-on plans
• bridge funding or short-term fellowships.

Eligibility: you must have a PhD and be based at a university in the UK or an LMIC ( low and middle income country, this includes Thailand) 

Budget: Applicants may request up to 100,000 GBP   

Duration: The maximum project period is 2 years.

Deadline: 2 October 2017, 17:00 BST

Full details:  https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/seed-awards-science ( You can also contact the Wellcome team for more information) 

Grand Challenges - Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are seeking innovative ideas to assess the burden of disease, to develop better vaccines, and to develop new diagnostics, specifically to:

• Develop methods for simple preparation and preservation of stool samples for room-temperature transport and remote-analysis;
• Better understand cause of death from tissue samples;
• Develop point-of-care nucleic acid diagnostics to below $2 per test;
• Enable self-testing for cervical cancer;
• Develop malaria diagnostics to accelerate toward eradication.

Successful proposals will:

• Clearly describe how the idea, if successful, would help solve one of the challenges described in the call;
• Be directly relevant to the developing world (e.g. low-cost, useful across multiple geographical and cultural settings, self-sustaining);
• Have a clear and testable hypothesis and include an associated plan for how the idea would be tested or validated;
• Yield interpretable and unambiguous data in Phase I, in order to be considered for Phase II funding

The Details

Deadline - 11 May 2016

Full details - http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/explore-new-solutions-global-health-priority-areas-round-17

FAQs - http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant-opportunities/faq/gce