Centre for Advanced Research under Extramural Research Program (India)

Conducting decisive research that helps in solving an important healthcare problem by a research team. It can have single or multiple linked research projects with clear deliverables. It encourages in-depth research, to generate new knowledge and solutions for health problems in multiple aspects of causation, progression, management and prevention.

Priority Areas

• Communicable Diseases:
  • One Health
  • AMR
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vector Borne diseases
  • Respiratory infections
  • Neurological infections
  • Hepatic infections
  • Sepsis
  • HIV/AIDS & other STIs
• Non-Communicable Diseases:
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Chronic Respiratory diseases
  • Neurological conditions
  • Mental Health
  • Blood disorders including hemoglobinopathies
  • Rare diseases
• Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition:
  • Anemia & micronutrient deficiencies
  • Childhood malnutrition
  • Early childhood development (particularly improving neuro-developmental outcomes of small and sick newborns)
  • Neonatal Mortality, preterm-LBW, asphyxia, neonatal sepsis
  • Genetic disorders/congenital anomalies
  • PCOS/endometriosis
  • Antenatal, intra-natal and postnatal care
  • Post-conception care
  • Obstetric haemorrhage
• Over-arching:
  • Ageing and disabilities
  • Oral Health
  • Mitigating Health impacts of Climate Change

Funding Information

• Current budgetary ceiling is between INR 8 crores to less than INR 15 crores per CAR.
• Duration of project: will be for a maximum period of five years.

Eligibility Criteria

• A proposal can be submitted for financial support through online mode only by the Principal Investigator on behalf of the proposed team of Scientists/professionals who have a regular employment in Medical Institutes/Research Institutes/ Universities/Colleges/recognized Research & Development laboratories/Government and semi-government organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations. The research team should have credentials for relevant skills, experience and demonstrated ability to solve health problems under consideration.
• Research teams with outstanding achievements, recognition and proven excellence in the area and having the necessary infrastructure to carry out further work are encouraged to apply.
• The institute and principal investigator will be supported to establish CAR with an aim that the facility so created would continue to function even after this funding gets over. CAR should develop trained health research personnel. After completion of the project, the host institute would be expected to take over activities of the centre as permanent activity.

Ineligibility Criteria

• ICMR scientists/institutes are not eligible to apply under this call. ICMR scientists may be named as coinvestigators in these projects, but no funds will be given for ICMR institutions or scientists in these cases.

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