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CS Individual Research Grant (CS-IRG) is provided to Clinician Scientists (CS) to enable them to carry out medical research on a specifically defined topic for a period of 3 years in local public institutions. The focus of the research should be translational and clinical in nature.
Please visit NMRC website for more information.
Funding Information
| Capped Amount |
Maximum Duration |
| $1.5M* |
3 years |
* with additional 20% indirect costs provided to the Host Institution of the lead PI.
Eligibility
• Each grant application must be led by a Clinical PI who has to fulfill the eligibility criteria listed below.
• Only one Principal Investigator (PI) is allowed per application. The Clinical PI should at the point of application fulfill the following requirements:
Definition of a Clinical PI
The Clinical PI should be clinically qualified (i.e. with MD/MBBS/BDS) and preferably with post-graduate clinical training and experience. For proposals involving patients, the clinical PI or co-I should be SMC registered; or should be able to demonstrate ability to access patients through SMC registered collaborators. For some IRG proposals it is recognized that some studies may be pre-clinical and not require the PI to be SMC registered.
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, provided that they fulfill the eligibility criteria listed below.
Such exceptions on the eligibility to apply as the Clinical PI should be made at the point of application and once approved the individual can only apply as a clinical PI (e.g. IRGs), and not in another investigator-led research grant for the non-clinical PI/basic scientists (e.g. CBRGs); and vice versa. However, this does not restrict the individual to participate as collaborator in other grant programmes.
However, the individual is allowed to switch from clinical PI to non-Clinical PI at certain point of time, provided he is not holding two different grant types concurrently as a Clinical PI and a non-Clinical PI. Please fill up this declaration form only if you would like to be considered under the CS-IRG/CBRG as an exception case
Additional eligibility criteria include:
(a) Hold a primary appointment in a local public hospital/public health institutions/national specialty centre/public universities/Academic Medical Centres and salaried by the institution.
(b) Be an independent PI with a demonstrated track record of research as evidenced by the award of nationally competitive funding (international funding to be considered on a case by case basis) or substantial publication record.
(c) Have a laboratory or clinical research program that carries out research in Singapore.
(d) Hold a minimum of 9 months employment with a local Singapore institution, and fulfilling at least 6 months of residency in Singapore over a period of 1 calendar year.
(e) No outstanding reports from previous BMRC, NMRC grants and other national grants.
Schedule of Annual Call
There are two calls a year - May and November.
Application Procedure
Please submit the following to NUHS Research Office by 12 noon, 31 May'12 - Thursday:
Note: Kindly indicate NUHS as the host institution in the application form. As incomplete applications or late submissions will be rejected by NMRC. We strongly encourage applications to be submitted earlier.
Please read through the following documents before filling up the application form:
1. NMRC Application Guide
2. Helpful Notes for Application form (prepared by NUHS RO)
Kindly Note:
If the proposed study would requires biospecimen or tissue banking, please contact Dr Eng Chon Boon (chon_boon_eng@nuhs.edu.sg ) from the NUHS Tissue Repository. The tissue repository will assist in biobanking budgetary. Kindly visit http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/tissue/Cost%20Recovery%20Schedule.pdf.
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