Early Career Researcher VIVO Biobank Pilot Grants (UK)

This grant is for you if you are an early career researcher with an idea for a pilot biological study which will generate preliminary data for a further, larger research project or will generate useful, publishable data.

Funding Information

• Grants of up to £15,000 are available to support a defined research project.
• The proposed research should be completed within 12 months of the award start date i.e. the maximum project duration is 12 months.

Eligible Costs

• Salaries for grant staff
• Costs associated with carrying out research projects:
  • Laboratory expenses (if applicable)
  • Equipment purchase costs (where equipment is specific to the grant)
  • Equipment access costs
  • Other costs associated with undertaking the proposed research project
  • Where justified, personal computing costs for the lead applicant to work specifically on the grant
  • Standard per-unit IT charges are not acceptable
• Indirect costs and overheads

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply for a CCLG VIVO Biobank Pilot Grant if you are an early career researcher based at a UK University, NHS Hospital or Research Institute. They define an early career researcher as a student, or a researcher who received their PhD qualification (or equivalent training) within the last 10 years.
• You will need the support of an appropriate supervisor at a UK hospital, university, or research institute.
• Remit
  • You can apply for a grant to conduct any type of research that addresses one of the top ten research priorities identified by the Children’s Cancer Priority Setting Partnership. Your proposal must use tissue samples (or data) from the VIVO Biobank.
  • Funding is available for discrete projects and not as ‘top up’ funding for existing projects, although funding can be used to support additional specific experiments as part of a wider piece of work (e.g. a PhD study).
• Host institution
  • The grant can be held by any non-profit research centre of excellence (NHS hospital, university or research institute) within the UK that is able to provide the facilities required for the successful completion of the project.

Assessment Criteria

• Applications will be judged on:
  • Research need and scope
  • Hypothesis
  • Design of proposed study
  • Expertise of research team/support available for applicant
  • Justification of resources

For more information, visit CCLG.