Wellcome is accepting nominations for Mental Health Award: improving cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.
This call will provide funding to individuals or teams from not-for-profit or commercial organisations for two types of applications. Firstly, to develop and evaluate interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis. Secondly, to test new or existing markers of cognitive functioning for prediction of risk or treatment stratification.
This call aims to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, an area of unmet patient need.
Funding Information
Level of funding: Up to £3 million for applications developing interventions. Up to £1 million for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.
Duration of funding: Up to 5 years for intervention development and evaluation. Up to 3 years for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.
What do the award include?
This award includes:
staff
continuing professional development and training
materials and consumables
animals
equipment
access charges
overheads
travel and subsistence
overseas allowances
fieldwork expenses
inflation allowance
open access charges
clinical research costs
public engagement and patient involvement costs
contract research organisations
lived experience involvement
other costs
Where your host organisation is based: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
What they are looking for?
In this one-off call, they are looking to:
support the development and evaluation of interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, and
increase their understanding of the potential for markers of cognitive functioning to enable risk or treatment stratification for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply to this call if you are an individual or team:
from a relevant discipline, broadly defined (for example, biomedical, digital, social sciences or humanities)
with co-applicants based in the country or countries where the research will take place
Lead applicant
You must:
have the experience needed to drive and lead a complex collaborative research programme to address mental health research questions
have experience of people and research management and training, as appropriate for your career stage
have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract for the duration of the award, or guarantee of a salaried post, which is not conditional on receiving this award
be able to contribute at least 20% of your research time to this project
be based at an eligible host organisation that can sign up to their grant conditions. In the case of lead applicants based at commercial companies, they may offer funding via a convertible loan, or a revenue sharing agreement instead of a grant, depending on circumstances
Co-applicants
must be essential for the delivery of the proposed research and make a significant contribution, for example designing the research, writing the application, or managing the programme
must be able to contribute at least 10% of their research time to this project
can be at any career stage
do not need to have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract at their host institution, however, they must have a guarantee of space from their host institution for the duration of their commitment to the award
must be based at an eligible organisation that can sign up to their grant conditions
can be based in the same or in different organisations, and come from any discipline, but the added value of the team approach must be clear
What they don't offer?
Salary recovery costs for staff funded full-time by the employing organisation.
Indirect costs.
Working capital costs of commercial organisations.
Fees for academic courses such as Master's degrees or PhDs, and other tuition fees.
Costs for large equipment.
Costs for capital build or refurbishment.
They don't fund overheads unless they're included on this page (for example research management and support costs).
Deadline: May 5, 2022
Grant Size: More than $1 million
Category: Awards, Prizes and Challenges
For more information, visit Wellcome.
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