UK Research and
Innovation (UKRI), the Medical Research
Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are collaborating
with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India, to invite proposals to the
UK-India Covid-19 Partnership Initiative.
The objective is to deliver research funding for internationally
competitive and innovative collaborations between researchers from India and
the UK.
Proposals must consider the immediate morbidity
and mortality associated with COVID-19 and demonstrate how progress within the
period of award could make a direct and significant contribution to the
understanding, prevention or management of the COVID-19 outbreak among south
Asian populations in the UK and India.
Through the UK-India Covid-19 partnership
initiative, the funders aim to:
- Support world-leading
collaborative research teams focussed on mitigating the severity of
COVID-19 in South Asian populations in the UK and India.
- Enhance existing partnerships
and develop new partnerships between the UK and India in efforts to
address COVID-19
- Strengthen the strategic
relationship between the UK and India.
UKRI and DBT will fund
research collaborations that:
- study related ethnic groups in
different environments
- explore the role of external
influences and demographic variables in influencing COVID-19
- improve the understanding of
the differential outcomes in populations of similar ethnic origin.
Your research should focus on south Asian populations in the UK and
India and can involve:
- mechanistic studies of the
disease and its long term effects
- virology, immunity and
pathophysiology
- epidemiology.
Funding Information
- In total, UKRI will make up to
£4 million available in support of the UK component of the collaborative
projects, with matched equivalent resource provided by DBT in support of
the Indian components.
- Projects must be up to 18
months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call will fund
partnerships between UK and India-based researchers working on COVID-19.
- Principal
investigators/applicants may only submit one application to this scheme as
principal investigator, but may be involved in more applications if listed
as a co-investigator.
Post Date - 28-Oct-2020