£10,000 funding awards available for Women & Children’s research projects

Women and children

The Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) Women & Children’s Research Domain, part of Health Innovation Manchester (HInM), are offering the opportunity to apply for supportive funding to pump prime new projects or to progress existing projects in Women & Children’s research in the Greater Manchester area up to the amount of £10,000 per project. We encourage applications from all disciplines including Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals.

This award is designed to enable researchers and clinicians to provide pump-priming to:

  • Existing projects requiring support to advance established clinical ideas or that have met a blockage to progress
  • Emerging basic science topics that require support for development into fully-formed research projects or clinical trials
  • Ideas requiring development into future research proposals

This funding aims to support the acquisition of technical expertise, consumables, pilot data generation, software and/or equipment, amongst other targets that will help overcome barriers and bottlenecks to research. This list is not exhaustive and other well-justified methods to overcome challenges will be considered.

Research projects should be aligned to research within the field of Women & Children’s health that may include, but are not limited to:

  • Studies to develop pilot data for external grant application
  • Projects to develop new technologies or biomarkers to diagnose and treat relevant disease
  • Projects to better understand mechanisms in women’s or children’s health
  • Fund acquisition of materials to support research.

Awards should be spent by the end of the current financial year in March 2025. The PI and team should be working in an established research/academic institution or NHS in the GM Area.

Applications should be made on the form on Pages 2-3 and be submitted by Friday 30th August 2024 as an email attachment, to MAHSC@healthinnovationmanchester.com, or peter.mellor@healthinnovationmanchester.com  

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