Medical grants
The Trust funds medical projects that are practical and capable of clinical application within 5-10 years. They may include a social or ethical element.
To be eligible for a Medical grant:
- Applications must be made directly by researchers at UK medical institutions or university departments.
- Projects may be of a type unlikely to receive support from Research Councils or large research-funding charities. The Trust will be reluctant to fund areas which are heavily funded by other organisations.
- Projects must obtain Ethics Committee approval where needed in accordance with the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, or equivalent local ethics approval for international projects.
The Trust will not award grants for work that involves animal experimentation.
Medical priorities:
The Trustees welcome Medical applications concerned with:
- Improving the quality of life of older people suffering from physical or psychological disorders.
- The prevention of disease and disability in children.
- The prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tropical infectious and parasitic diseases.
- Innovations, involving any discipline, which are likely to improve health care.
- Innovations in medicine for caring for the needs of disadvantaged groups
Medical proposals should be written so that non-medical Trustees can understand and appreciate the value of the work.
Recently awarded medical grants
Plymouth University
Funding a study to assess the nutritional intake and wellbeing of women experiencing Hyperemesis Gravidarum and their pregnancy outcomes to generate baseline data to inform future large studies.
Queen’s University Belfast
Mass spectrometry to identify novel biomarkers of invasive bacterial infections in young febrile infants.
