Aim
• The primary aim of the Transition Award is to assist budding, young clinicians who have just returned from formal research training, to build up their capability in research. This award provides funding support of up to three years, for mentored research project with salary and grant funding, for budding Clinician Scientists (CS).
The information is also available on the NMRC website.
Types of Awards
(A) Category I
This is for awardees who devote 70% or more time to do research.
Award includes:
(B) Category II
This is for awardees who devote 50-70% of their time to do research.
Award includes:
* The annual salary cap (including fringe benefits and allowances) is computed according to clinical grade:
| Clinician's Clinical Grade |
Annual Salary Cap |
| Senior Consultant |
$300,000 |
| Consultant |
$200,000 |
| Associate Consultant |
$150,000 |
| Registrar |
$120,000 |
Categories
There will be two categories in the TA to allow flexibility in time commitment.
i) For awardees who spend more than 70% (i.e. 71% and above) time in research, 100% salary backfill support will be provided; and
ii) For awardees who spend 50%-70% time in research, salary support will correspond to the amount of time spent on research and will be provided with lower quantum of research grant support. The institution will need to support the remaining amount of salary.
Eligibility
• Applicants must be clinical PIs, i.e. clinically qualified PIs (i.e. with MD/MBBS/BDS) and preferably with post-graduate clinical training and experience. For proposals involving patients, the clinical PI should be SMC registered; or the PI should be able to demonstrate ability to access patients through SMC registered collaborators.
Exceptions will be made on a case by case basis for applicants who are not clinically qualified as defined above, such as PhD holders or equivalent e.g. Biostatisticians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Psychologists, Allied Health Professionals who have active interactions with patients or whose research impact is directly clinically relevant. Applicants applying as an exception will need to complete a one-time declaration form for Clinical PI and submit it together with the application form.
• Once awarded, the awardees must hold either a regular-rank faculty/academic appointment or a tenureable-track/tenured position in one of the academic medical centres (AMC) or medical school.
• Applicants need not be Singapore citizens or Permanent Residents at the point of application. However, once awarded, awardees will need to obtain their citizenship or PR status before funding can be disbursed to them.
• Applicants should not have been an independent principal investigator on major national (e.g. NMRC, A*STAR, NRF, MOE AcRF Tier II); or international-level (e.g. MRC, NIH) research grants. Applicants who have received institutional grants or national grants lower than an IRG-level grant or equivalent (e.g EDG, NIG , MOE Tier l, and A*STAR BEP) are eligible.
Schedule of Annual Call
There are two calls a year, usually in May and November.
Application Procedures
Please submit 1 duly signed hardcopy of the following documents to NUHS Research Office, and softcopy to Grant_RO@nuhs.edu.sg (Attn: De Qing)
For SoM & NUH Applicants
Please refer to the application guide for more information.
For other Applicants
Please refer to the application guide for more information.
Kindly note that NUHS Research Office will assist to obtain the necessary endorsement by Dean of Medical School and the Institution.
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