Population and systems medicine partnership

Apply for funding to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in population and systems medicine.You must:The grant will allow you to:Funding is available for between one and five years.This is an ongoing scheme. Application rounds close every January, May and September.

You must:be looking to create a novel partnership between a diverse group of researchershave plans to establish new, high value collaborative activities or capabilities that should add value to high-quality scientific programmes that are already supported by grants from MRC and other fundersbe a researcher employed by an eligible research organisationhave at least a postgraduate degree, although we usually expect most applicants to have a PhD or medical degreebe able to show that you will direct the proposed partnership and be actively engaged in the workshow that you will be able to manage the funding awarded on behalf of MRC to ensure that the objectives of the partnership are fully deliveredensure that researchers invited to participate as co-investigators, contribute to the academic leadership of the partnershipfocus your application within the science area of population and systems medicine.You can also apply, if you are a researcher based within an MRC unit.Who isn’t eligible to applyYou cannot apply for a partnership grant if you are:looking for funding for a standalone, hypothesis-driven research project, which may otherwise be eligible for MRC research or programme grant type fundingbased within an MRC institute. However, members of MRC institutes can apply as co-investigators on partnership grants.Industry and international involvementYou are encouraged to include one or more industry partners as project partners in your application.International co-investigators can be included if they provide expertise not available in the UK. Inclusion of an international co-investigator must be discussed and agreed with the relevant programme manager in advance of the application submission (see the ‘contact’ section below).