Merck is seeking applications to offer a series of
research grants to stimulate innovative research in challenging areas of future
importance.
The aim of the Research Grant is to create new sustainable
partnerships with leading global science and technology players to work on
breakthrough science and to generate valuable seeds for future business.
Research Areas
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany intends to offer
research grants in the following research areas:
- Drug Discovery: 3 grants comprising 350,000 €/year for 3 years
with the option of extension
- Real time testing and sensors: grant comprising between 100,000 - 500,000 $/year
for 2 years with the option of extension
- Nanoparticle for nucleic acid
delivery: grant comprising between
100,000 - 300,000 $/year for 2 years with the option of extension
- Digital Innovation: 3 grants comprising 40,000 - 100,000 € for 1 year
with the option of extension
- Bioelectronics: grant comprising 150,000 €/year for 3 years
- Sustainability: grant/s to be negotiated on a case by case basis
- Media recycling for cultured
meat: grant/s to be negotiated
on a case by case basis
- Organoids: grant/s to be negotiated on a case by case basis
Funding Information
The amount of the grant(s) is 40,000 - - 450,000
EUR per year for up to 3 years are available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions are accepted from
scientists in all countries all over the world.
- The Merck research grants
program is open to scientists in all career stages who are affiliated with
any research-based institution, university or company. Applicants submit
their application for the focus topics containing non-confidential
information only. You may apply for more than one focus topic.
If your application is successful, you are
invited to submit a full proposal under confidentiality and join a deep-dive
workshop with the other finalists in 2021.
Post Date - 06-Apr-2021