Scope
The projects should build and strengthen collaborations across the Initiative and the UK through feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.
Areas of potential interest include (but are not limited to):
- generation of novel functional genomic annotations in disease-relevant cell types
- development of novel methods, functional perturbation of disease systems
- development of models for functional genomics, data science and computational approaches for functional genomics
Technology priming projects that support the initiative, functional genomics screening lab or a specific research cluster are welcome.
Projects that offer to bring in specific knowledge or contributions to the initiative are encouraged.
What we will fund
This grant may be used to support the following:
- direct project costs: 100% directly incurred and directly allocated project costs can be claimed, including staff time, travel and subsistence on the individual feasibility or pilot projects
- costs of networking activities, including travel and subsistence
What we will not fund
This grant may not be used to support:
- duplication of other sources of funding that would be more appropriate for the activity to be funded
- indirect or estates costs at the research organisation
- any costs relating to intellectual property protection including but not limited to registering, maintaining, or supporting patents or property rights
- equipment with a value of £10,000 or more
- undergraduate or postgraduate activities or training, or core PhD training including tuition or bench fees
- contributions to existing knowledge transfer partnerships
Matched funding
Industrial partners will be expected to provide matched funding (cash, in-kind or both).
Start date
Projects should start within three months of being awarded.
