Funding opportunities
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Please forward project applications as e-mail attachments to the centralised address at the MRC: rgmd@mrc.ac.za by 28th February.
Proposals will only be accepted from applicants employed in academic pathology laboratories (university affiliated) from the following departments:
- Anatomical pathology
- Chemical pathology
- Haematology
- Microbiology: Bacteriology/Immunology/Mycology/Parasitology/Virology
- Oral pathology
- Human genetics – only if the department is within a School of Pathology
Principal investigator
- Principal investigators applicants must be South African citizens or permanent residents residing in South Africa, and registered with the HPCSA.
- Principal investigators must be employed in an academic (university) pathology department and have attained a Masters Degree or PhD within the last five years.
- If the principal investigator attained a FC Path, Masters Degree or PhD more that five years ago, a registered student (BSc (Hons), MMed, MSc or PhD) must be named in addition as the project leader. Any post-graduate student named, as project leader must also be registered as a student in one of the academic pathology departments.
- Principal investigators applying for funding to conduct their own degree project must be registered for a degree higher than already attained.
- Only two applications per researcher per year is allowed
- Each academic pathology department may not submit more than five applications per year.
- Principal investigators employed at NIOH and NICD must demonstrate their link or association with a relevant university department. Alternatively, the research must be conducted in association or collaboration with someone employed at a pathology department at a university.
Project leader
- Any post-graduate student (BSc (Hons), MMed, MSc, or PhD) named as project leader must also be registered as a student in one of the academic pathology departments.
- If for any reason a student fails to register for the degree stated the MRC must be informed immediately.
Project
Aims and Objectives
Aim: Broad scientific goal.
Objective(s): Focused and feasible.
Background
A concise literature review is needed to introduce the area and explain the scientific relevance of the project. This section must contain carefully selected key references. Systematic review should be mentioned if available.
For applied research projects, mention how knowledge obtained will be implemented to change current understandings of health and disease, health policy/practices/behaviour or the allocation of resources for health services.
Detailed methodology
Provide detailed information on study/experimental design, statistical analysis and outline research procedures and protocols with references where appropriate. State province(s)/regions in which the project will be undertaken.
If the study involves patient/DNA consent forms or questionnaires these must be included in the proposal. It is essential that the project as submitted to the NHLS Trust for funding consideration is approved by an ethics committee in its entirety.
If any analyses are to be conducted outside your institution, give full details as to what tests will be performed, by whom, and where.
Impact
Capacity development
Does the project involve training of researchers?
Is the project part of a collaborative venture to strengthen institutional capacity?
Will the project develop capacity in new and emerging under-researched areas?
Ethics and Institutional approval
It is the responsibility of the principal investigator to submit a parallel application to Administrative Heads of Institutions for approval by both the Research and Ethics and Biosafety Committees timeously. The form for institutional approval is given below.
Ethics approval is obligatory before peer review can be conducted and must reach the MRC by 30th March.
Completed signed documents may be forwarded by mail to:
Research Administration Division,
MRC, PO Box 19070,
Tygerberg, 7505
Fax No: 021 938 0368
Scan e-mail attachment: rgmd@mrc.ac.za
If the project has already been approved for ethics, the name of the principal investigator must have been included in the submission. Please state the title of the project that received ethics approval, provide the official ethics clearance code and year approved.
Budget
Group costs, e.g. consumables/reagents/chemicals, or state requirements for a named method/number of samples to be analysed. Please cost expensive reagents separately and briefly justify all major expenditure.
Unfortunately the NHLS Research Trust is unable to support additional infrastructure, equipment, salaries or contracted personnel therefore please design your project proposal accordingly. Due to limited funds requests for bursaries cannot be entertained.
All other sources of funding (received or pending) for the project applied for must be declared. Give the name of the funding agency approached and if the outcome is known the amount granted. Failure to disclose funding information will disqualify the applicant.
If the outcome of a funding application to another granting authority is finalised after submission of the project then full details (funding agency and amount granted) must be forwarded immediately by e-mail to rgmd@mrc.ac.za
Curriculum vitae principal investigator and project leader
Only brief professional CVs and publications from the past three years will be accepted. The length of the CV is not to exceed three pages.
Reviewers' evaluations will be submitted together with the proposal to the NHLS Research Trust Grants Committee for consideration. The Grants Committee will convene in June and allocate available funding using as criteria reviewer rankings and comments. The outcome of applications will be communicated to institutions and individuals and will include, whether successful or unsuccessful, feedback and comments.
Contacts at the MRC Research Grants Management Division
Administration enquiries and deadlines
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