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The CS-IRG New Investigator Grant (CS-IRG-NIG) is a sub category of the CS-IRG to cater for new clinical investigators. The CS-IRG-NIG is a step for the new investigator to a first independent national level grant. Applicants with substantial research experience will not be accepted under this category.
Please visit NMRC website for more information.
Funding Information
| Capped Amount |
Maximum Duration |
| $200k |
2 years |
* with additional 20% indirect costs provided to the Host Institution of the lead PI.
Eligibility
Applicants who are applying as new investigators category (CS-IRG-NIG) have to work with a mentor for guidance in their research. This mentoring will provide support for a period of supervised research leading eventually to the clinical investigators conducting larger scale research projects independently.
To be eligible for the CS-IRG-NIG, the following requirements apply in addition to the eligibility criteria for the CS-IRG:
(i) Applicants cannot apply to other funding sources as PI or Co-PI for the same evaluation period.
(ii) Applicants must not have held any national grants (e.g., NMRC, A*STAR, NRF, MOE AcRF Tier II, etc) or international grants (e.g., MRC, NIH,NHMRC, etc) as a PI/Co-PI.
(iii) Applicants must not have held any grants cumulatively exceeding $300,000 from any other agencies
Schedule of Annual Call
There are 2 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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