Wellcome Trust Fellowships - training, intermediate, senior

Wellcome Trust has three different fellowships on offer. Take a look at the options and find which one best fits your situation. They are all for researchers in Low and Middle Income Countries ( this includes Thailand). They all cover your salary and the research expenses of your proposed project. You can stay in your current job or move to a new university in an LMIC.

Training Fellowships

• For early stage researchers. You must have some research experience 
• Funding for 3 years
• You must have a PhD OR a degree in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine OR a degree in medicine. 

Preliminary application deadline - 30 November 2017

Full details - https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/training-fellowships-public-health-and-tropical-medicine

Intermediate Fellowships

• For mid-career researchers
• Funding for 5 years
• You must have a PhD or a degree in medicine 
• You to need to have made contributions to your area of research - e.g. publications, patents, software development or an impact on health policy or practice

Preliminary application deadline - 30 November 2017

Full details - https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/intermediate-fellowships-public-health-and-tropical-medicine

Senior Research Fellowships

• You need to be an established researcher leading your own independent research programme
• Funding for 5 years ( plus extension possible) 
• You must have a PhD or a degree in medicine 
• You to need to have made significant research experience and want to become a leading investigator 

Preliminary application deadline - 27 November 2017

Full details - https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/senior-fellowships-public-health-and-tropical-medicine

Comparative Genomics Research Program (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PAR-17-482

Comparative Genomics Research Program 

R01

Clinical Trial Not Allowed

PAR-17-482

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) January 5, 2018

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invites applications for research developing comparative approaches that can be used to understand genome structure and function and the relationship between genomic features and phenotypes. This program supports studies that enable the use of a diverse array of species to advance our ability to understand basic biological processes related to human health and disease, as well as studies that develop novel analytical tools and resources for the comparative genomics research community.

Eligibility: Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations)

Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)

Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support

Specific areas of research interest:

NHGRI is interested in supporting development of comparative genomics methods and resources with strong justification of biological relevance, particularly relevance to human health and disease, that will enable areas of research including, but not limited to:

• Genome structure and organization across multiple species, particularly in lineages with diverse or unusual genomic architectures
• The relationship between genomic structure and function, especially in non-coding regions of the genome
• Evolutionary patterns and processes across multiple species including but not limited to divergent and convergent patterns of gene modification, gene regulation (including splicing), regulatory element activity, and regulatory networks
• Better understanding of the relationship between changes in DNA sequence, transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures, and phenotype/fitness, given that they do not always have simple correlations;
• The genetic underpinnings and evolution of health-related function in multiple species;
• The comparative population genomics of highly variable regions in multiple species;
• Integration of the genomes from ancient DNA and extant species to elucidate the genetic bases and evolutionary forces underlying speciation, adaptation to diverse environments, and the connections among genes, environments, and phenotypic form and function.

Link to Additional Information:	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-482.html

Wellcome Trust - Collaborative Awards in Science

Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and speed the pace of discovery. The Trust funds teams of researchers, consisting of independent research groups, to work together on the most important scientific problems that can only be solved through collaborative efforts.

Collaborative Awards are for teams of researchers bringing together the relevant expertise and experience to address the most important scientific problems.

Your proposal should describe a significant piece of work that addresses the most important questions, in an area relevant to the mission of the Wellcome Trust.

You should be able to demonstrate why the scientific problem you are tackling can only be solved through an integrated, collaborative team effort.

Each applicant must be essential to the proposed collaborative research and have:

• Proven research expertise and experience in their field.
• An academic or research post (or equivalent).
• A salary for the duration of the award period. 

Members of the team must have proven experience in collaborative research and consist of independent research groups.

Team size will depend on the proposed research, but should generally have more than two applicants, and no more than seven. Teams may be based in the same or in different organisations, and must bring different expertise or disciplines to the research question.


Eligibility - Applicants should be based at eligible organisations in the UK, Republic of Ireland, or low- or middle-income countries ( this includes Thailand).

Budget available - up to £4 million

Duration - up to 5 years

Deadline - Preliminary application deadline - 15 November 2017, Full application deadline - 26 February 2018

Full details - https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/collaborative-awards-science

Short deadline - Thrasher Research Fund - Early Career Awards

The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area. The goal is to fund applicants who will go on to be independent investigators.

The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. They do not focus on a particulate disease, but always deal directly with children's health.

In the Early Career Award Program, the Fund is particularly interested in applicants that show great potential to impact that field of children's health through medical research. Both an applicant's aptitude and inclination toward research are considered. The quality of the mentor and the mentoring relationship are also considered to be important predictors of success.

Each project needs to be under the guidance of a mentor. The qualifications and experience of the mentor will be considered in the evaluation of the application.

There are no restrictions with regard to citizenship. The Fund is open to applications from institutions both inside and outside the United States.

Eligibility - Post-doctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the Concept Paper.

Budget available - maximum of $25,000

Duration - up to two years

Deadline - concept note - September 19 2017, full submission - November 3

Full details - www.thrasherresearch.org/SitePages/early-career-award.aspx

Doctoral Programmes in Germany

DAAD research grants provide young foreign academics and scientists with an opportunity to carry out research and continue their education in Germany. There are funding programmes for various qualification phases and stages in a career. The grants also promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.

Who can apply?
Excellently-qualified young academics and scientists who have completed a Master's degree or Diplom, or in exceptional cases a Bachelor's degree at the latest by the time they begin their grant-supported research.

What can be funded?
Doctoral programmes at a state or state-recognised institution of higher education or a non-university research institute in Germany.

Duration of the funding
A maximum of four years.
Grants are initially awarded for a maximum of one year. Extensions depend on whether the selection committee considers the previous award period to have been successfully completed.

Application deadline
October 15 2017

More information 
https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship-database/?status=&origin=15&subjectGrps=&daad=1&q=&page=3&detail=57135739

Who to contact
DAAD Information Centre Bangkok
c/o Thai-German Cultural Foundation
18/1 Soi Goethe, Sathorn 1
Bangkok 10120
Thailand
Tel.: +66 (2)/286 8708-09
Fax.: +66 (2)/286 48 45
info@daad.or.th
http://www.daad.or.th

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) 

AHRC-MRC Global Public Health: Partnership Awards Call 2

The overarching driver of this partnership building activity is to develop inter-disciplinary research capacity and capability in both the UK and developing countries, jointly and collaboratively and across career stages. The aim is to generate reciprocal benefits through integrating an understanding of cultures and histories into medical and public health challenges in a global context and to equip the next generation of researchers to work collaboratively and blend scientific, cultural and policy research.

In order not to limit the potential for inter-disciplinary innovation under this call the call is open to proposals addressing any global public health issue affecting low and middle countries.


The following activities are permissible under this partnership grant scheme:

• Establishing inter-disciplinary collaborative partnerships or consortia
• Developing strategy to strengthen research activity across the field
• Knowledge sharing across research departments and/or between institutions and across sectoral boundaries both within the UK and with LMIC based colleagues.
• Small scale/pilot/proof of principle/exploratory/ higher risk inter-disciplinary projects to explore innovative boundary crossing collaborations
• Cross-disciplinary (and cross-cultural / language) literature reviews/ research synthesis/ evidence analysis or integrative data sharing and analysis,
• Widening/ extending the disciplinary breadth of existing teams / partnerships (e.g. through placements, embedding, ethnographic research)
• Career development, inter-disciplinary skills enhancement and capacity building.
• Establishing shared infrastructure, for example, staff, systems, equipment, data, seminars, workshops.  This could include a co-ordinated set of needs-led and complimentary networking activities (including outreach work and travel) with a defined output.

Eligibility: a UK university will be the applicant but they must partner with an LMIC institution ( Low and middle income country, this includes Thailand)  

Budget: Applicants may request up to 200,000 GBP   

Duration: The maximum project period is 2 years.

Deadline: 4 pm BST Thursday 26 October 2017

Full details:  www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/ahrc-mrc-gcrf-2/ahrc-mrc-global-public-health-partnership-awards-call-2/