Funding Opportunities

New funding oppourtunities for HIV and Sexual Health related research appear throughout the year. This section highlights relevant call for proposals.

Community Fund of the National Lottery - Medical Research Grant

The fund request applications from researchers looking at a wide range of disease conditions related to health and social well-being. The priority for this year is promoting social inclusion. Proposals must be led by applicants from the charity or voluntary sector with research organisations or individual researchers named as partners. The scheme aims to encourage links between the voluntary sector and the research community.
Contact: Community Fund, Corporate Office, St Vincent House,
16 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4NL • Phone: 0845 7919191
Web: http://www.community-fund.org.uk

MRC - Research into Aids Vaccines

The Medical Research Council invites research proposals in the area of HIV vaccine development:
o Basic science: neutralising antibody research, research on the cellular immune response and mucosal immunity are of high priority, low priority is adjuvant research and studies on novel viral vectors;
o Small and large animal research: mouse and primate are high priority, cats where large numbers of animals will be required, (e.g. protection studies); clinical trials.
Applications will be assessed in open competition across the council’s range of funding schemes, including strategic grants.
Contact Lorna Colquhoun, MRC, 20 Park Crescent, London W1N 4AL, UK • Tel: +44 20 7670 5355 • Fax: +44 20 7670 5038Email: lorna.colquhoun@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk

The Medical Society for the study of Venereal Diseases – Venereal Diseases

The Medical Society for the study of Venereal Diseases invites applications under its clinical development fund. Funding is available to support projects that advance the understanding and practice of genitourinary medicine. The total amount available is £10,000.
Contact Keith Radcliff, MSSVD, Whittall Street Clinic, Whittall St.
Birmingham B4 6DH• Tel: 0121 237 5719 • Fax: 0121 237 5729
Email: keith.radcliff@bscht.wmids.nhs.uk Web: www.mssvd.org.uk/awards.htm

NIAID - HIV Vaccine

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invites applications for research aimed at obtaining a safe and efficacious vaccine against HIV or Aids. This program supports multidisciplinary research, drawing together fields including immunology, virology, molecular biology, viral disease pathogenesis, and animal modeling. PAR-03-094
Contact Dianne Tingley, Division of Extramural Affairs, MAID, Room Number 2148A, MSC-7616, 6700-B Ro ckledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA • Tel +1 301 496 2550 • Fax +1 301 402 2638 Email: dt15g@nih.gov
Web: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/par-03-094.html
Deadline: 13 November 2003

GlaxoSmithKline - HIV /Aids Drug Research

GlaxoSmithKline invites applications for its drug discovery and development research grant for innovative HIV/Aids drug research, including therapies aimed at Treating infection as well as prophylactic vaccines or microbicides designed to prevent transmission of the virus, with amounts ranging from $25,000 (£15,600) to $150,000. Applicants must have an advanced degree such as MD, PhD or the equivalent. Applicants must work in academic centres, not-for-profit institutions, or for-profit businesses such as start-up biotechnology companies. Applications will be accepted from new investigators; established investigators pursuing new innovative clinical research areas; and pairs of investigators from the same institution or different institutions working on new cross disciplinary innovative approaches.
Contact Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant, GSK, 5 Moore Drive, PO Box 13398, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3398, USA • Tel +1 888 527 6935
Webhttp://www.dddresearchgrant.com/grant_bk.html
Deadline 31 July 2003

Wellcome Trust - Wellcome Gants

The Wellcome Trust invites applications for its grants for research projects falling within the objectives of the trust’s program, where such expenses cannot be met by the applicant’s host institution. Applicants must normally hold an established academic post in a UK or Republic of Ireland university or other institution of higher education. Projects should last no more than three years. Funding is available to cover salaries and associated costs for research assistants and other project support staff, travel, equipment and other expenses essential for the research, and a set amount for the principal applicant and any research assistants to attend conferences and other meetings of a relevant scholarly nature.
Contact: Grants section (MIS), Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BE •Tel 020 76118415 • Fax 020 76118254 Email: mis@wellcome.ac.uk
Web: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/ismisethgrafunpro.html
Deadline : Preliminary applications due at least one month before the deadline for full applications; full applications due 1 March, 1 August, 1 December 2003

NICHD - Sexual transmission of HIV

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health invite applications for demographic research on sexual behaviors related to HIV. This program particularly encourages studies in populations most vulnerable to the sexual transmission of HIV both in the US and worldwide minority men and women, men who have sex with men, and youths, especially disadvantaged youths. Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign for-profit and nonprofit organizations, public and private institutions, units of state and local governments and eligible agencies of the federal government. Ref: PAS-00-136.
Contact Susan Newcomer, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, NICHD, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 8B7, MSC 7510, Bethesda, MD 20892-7510, USA • Tel: +1 301 435-6981 •Fax: +1 301 496 0962 • Email: Snewcomer@nih.gov
Web: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-00-136.html
Deadline: 1 September 2003