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  • Funding Opportunity Announcement:  Wellcome Trust Awards 

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    The Wellcome Trust seeks to fund researchers addressing important questions relating to life, health, and wellbeing, with creative approaches that push boundaries. Applications are requested from researchers through innovative projects, that will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing.  

    Two grant schemes are available: 

    • Early-Career Awards scheme, for researchers ready to develop their research identity 
    • Career Development Awards scheme, for researchers with the potential to be international research leaders 

    Research proposals may be in any discipline - including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health - as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the Wellcome Trust’s funding remit.   

    Award details:   

    • Early-Career Awards scheme:  
      • Grants are available for up to five years and applicants may request salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. 
    • Career Development Awards scheme:  
      • Grants are available for up to eight years and applicants may request salary (if required) and the resources required for their research programme. 

    Funder deadlines (3 deadlines per year): 

    • Early-Career Award: 15 February, 21 May & 01 October 2024 
    • Career Development Award: 11 April, 25 July & 26 November 2024 

    Please find the full call for the Early-Career Award opportunity here, and for the Career Development Award opportunity here. 

  • Call for applications: Master of Public Health Bursary - Empilisweni Centre

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    Deadline for submission: Rolling deadline in 2024

    Empilisweni Centre aims to strengthen capacity in clinical services and implementation science in South Africa through training and mentoring emerging researchers focussed on cancer prevention and control.

    The Centre will offer up to two scholarships to support new or enrolled students in the Masters In Public Health (MPH) programme. They seek highly motivated students with public health interests in either cancer control, health systems research, health economics, epidemiology, socio-behavioural and implementation science, to join their interdisciplinary research group. The candidate should have expressed interest in public sector service, health service or implementation research, or related areas.

    For more information, please read the full announcement here.

  • NIH: Halting Tuberculosis Transmission [R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049)] 

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    NIH: Halting Tuberculosis Transmission [R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049)]  

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks applications for Halting Tuberculosis (TB) Transmission; R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049). The purpose of this funding opportunity is to understand the critical drivers of TB transmission at the individual and population levels in high-burden settings; to develop effective methods to measure rates of TB transmission that rely on an increased understanding of the biomedical basis of transmission and related risk factors; and assess potential interventions, including low-cost and low-tech options, to prevent TB transmission and detect infectious TB.  

    Award details:  

    $750,000 in direct costs per year, for up to 5 years 

    Eligibility:  

    Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator 

    Download the pdf outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval   

    Funder deadline:  

    04 December 2024  

  • NIHR: Global Health Research- Researcher-led bands 1-3

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    NIHR: Global Health Research- Researcher-led bands 1-3 

    The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is soliciting applications for the Global Health Research (GHR) – Researcher-led programmes. These programmes fund research to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Research must address evidence needs that are locally identified and prioritised, and must promote health equity, aligning with the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 3. Applications can span broad, ambitious programmes of research to projects with a narrower scope.  

    Award details:  

    • Researcher-led band 1 offers £4.0m to £7.0m of funding per award, for up to 5 years  

    • Researcher-led band 2 offers £2.0m to £4.0m of funding per award, for up to 4 years.  

    • Researcher-led band 3 offers £0.25m to £2.0m of funding per award, for up to 3 years  

    Eligibility:  

    Bands differ in their leadership requirements   

    Download the pdf outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval  

    Funder deadline:  

    6 November 2024  

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  • Wellcome: Career Development Awards Scheme

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    Wellcome: Discovery Awards Scheme

    Wellcome is soliciting applications for their Discovery Awards scheme from established researchers and teams from any discipline. Researchers who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing are eligible to apply.  Successful applicants will be expected to actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive research environment within their team and across their organisation.  

    Award details: 

    Up to eight years of project expenses  

    Eligibility: 

    Established researchers 

    Download the pdf outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval  
     

    Funder Deadline: 

    03 December 2024  

  • UKRI: Applied Global Health Research

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    Applied global health research: stage one

    The UK Research and Innovation is looking to fund research projects that will lead to tangible change in health policy and practice in the near future through practical, impact focused research. This program supports the development of high-quality global health proposals, equitable research partnerships, and research capacity building in low- and middle-income countries. 

    Award details  

    • £150,000 - £2,000,000 for up to 5 years 

    Eligibility  

    Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator  

    Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval  

    Funder deadline  
    03 December 2024 

  • NIH: HIV-associated Non-Communicable Diseases Research at Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (R21)

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    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks applications for HIV-associated Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Research at Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) Institutions: R21 Clinical Trial optional (PAR-23-191). 

    The goals of this program are to support locally relevant research in critical areas of HIV-associated NCD research, to enhance research capacity, and to build a network of researchers both within and across LMICs to address this critical burden. This initiative is expected to stimulate new research on the interplay between HIV and development of NCDs in persons living with HIV (PLWH) 

    Award details  

    • Up to $275,000 over a two-year period, with no more than $150,000 for a single year   

    Eligibility  

    Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator  

    Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval  

    Funder deadline  
    09 December 2024 

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

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    The University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the following areas: 

    • Cardiac research (ring-fenced funds are available for cardiac research) 

    • Cancer research (ring-fenced funds are available for cancer research) 

    • Open category: any research area in the Faculty of Health Sciences 

    Award details 
    ZAR 300,000 for 2025 

    Eligibility 

    • Applicants who were awarded their PhD degree no earlier than December 2020 are eligible. 

    • Applicants who have not yet obtained their PhD but have official proof that their PhD thesis has been examined and approved by the submission deadline of 12 November 2024 are eligible. 

    Download the full call and application form 

    Submission deadline 
    12 November 2024 

  • Spencer Foundation: Small Research Grants

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    The Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education. Proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location.   

    The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. The Spencer Foundation are open to projects that might incorporate data from multiple and varied sources, span a sufficient length of time as to achieve a depth of understanding, or work closely with practitioners or community members over the life of the project.  

    Award details  

    • Up to $50,000 for projects ranging from 1 to 5 years 

    Eligibility  

    Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator  

    Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval 

    Funder deadline  
    04 December 2024 

  • NIH: Emerging Global Leader Award (K43)

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    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks applications for the Emerging Global Leader Award (K43) Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed; PAR-24-296 and K43 Independent Clinical Trial Required; PAR-24-295). The purpose of the K43 Award is to provide research support and protected time (three to five years) to an early- to mid-career research scientist from a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) who holds a junior faculty position at an LMIC academic or research institution.   

    Award details  

    • Up to $100,000 per year toward salary, with project costs for up to 5 years  

    Eligibility  

    Early- to mid-career researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator  

    Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval  

    Funder deadline  
    03 December 2024