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The Bedside & Bench (B&B) Grant aims to foster closer interactions between the basic scientist and the clinicians to translate scientific discoveries in the laboratory to clinical useful and commercially viable applications to improve health outcomes.
Each Co-PI must provide symmetrical intellectual inputs into the project. Partnerships with industry collaborator(s) are strongly encouraged and additional consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate industrial interest or engagement. This grant will not support stand-alone pre-clinical studies, studies in model systems and approaches such as genetic association studies that do not link to direct commercial outcomes.
Funding Information
(1) Up to $2M per project with additional 20% IRC provided to the Host Institution of the non-A*STAR Co-PI.
| Capped Amount |
Maximum Duration |
| $2M |
3 years |
(2) Additional funding of up to $3M, inclusive of 20% IRC, may be provided by the BMRC for proposal involving a scientist from the BMRC research institutes or units.
Eligibility
Each proposal must involve a demonstrable collaboration between the 2 Co-Principal Investigators. Each team must be made of one basic scientist and one clinician. Both must be independent investigators with a strong track record of peer reviewed research publications and grant support.
The Basic Science Co-PI should at the point of application fulfill the following requirements:
a) Possess a minimum academic qualification of a PhD or the equivalent training.
b) Hold a primary appointment in a local publicly funded institution.
c) Be an independent Co-PI with a track record of leadership ability in coordinating research programs and providing mentorship to research team, as well as having productive research outcomes e.g. quality research publication record in the past 3 years;
d) Have a laboratory or research program that carries out research in Singapore.
e) 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[1]
f) No outstanding reports from previous BMRC, NMRC grants, and other national grants.
The Clinical Co-PI should at the point of application fulfill the following requirements:
a) Clinically qualified (i.e. with MD/MBBS/BDS) and preferably with post-graduate clinical training and experience. For proposals involving patients the clinical Co-PI should be SMC registered; or the Co-PI should be able to demonstrate ability to access patients through SMC registered collaborators.
b) Hold a primary appointment in a local public hospital/public health institutions/national specialty centre/public universities/Academic Medical Centers and salaried by the institution.
c) Be an independent Co-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) and substantial publication record in the past 3 years
d) Have a laboratory or clinical research program that carries out research in Singapore
e) 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[2]
f) No outstanding reports from previous BMRC, NMRC grants, and other national grants.
Note:
The declaration to be an exception under the CS-IRG scheme does NOT apply to the Bedside & Bench Grant or the TCR programme.
For applicants who are applying as the clinical Co-PI for the Bedside & Bench grant or the lead PI for the TCR programme, they must be clinically qualified (i.e. with MD/MBBS/BDS) and preferably with the post-graduate training and experience.
[1] CREATE campus PIs are expected to fulfill the residency and other requirements as stipulated by the NRF and the above criteria (c), (d) and (f).
[2] CREATE campus PIs are expected to fulfill the residency and other requirements as stipulated by the NRF and the above criteria (c), (d) and (f).
Schedule of Annual Call
Once a year
Application Procedures
Letter of Intent (LOI)
Kindly submit the following documents to NUHS, Towerblock Level 11, by 5pm, 10 Jan 2012, and forward a softcopy to Grant_RO@nuhs.edu.sg
Please indicate NUHS as the Host Institution.
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(1 original hardcopy duly signed by Lead PI and Host institution if it is from NUS/NUHS, and 1 softcopy in a single Microsoft Word document including all annexes, pictures, tables, charts and attachments, if any)
Please name the LOI in the following format:
B&B Dec 2011 LOI_(Basic Science Co-PI’s Name) _ (Name of Institution) _ (Clinical Co-PI’s Name) _ (Name of Institution)
*Grant Endorsement Form is not required at LOI stage. |
Full Proposal (24 Feb 2012 - 5 Apr 2012)
Final Result (Aug 2012, tentatively)
Contact Us
For any urgent grant matters, you may also contact Ruth at 67723709, or ruth_gao@nus.edu.sg .
