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SEEDING DRUG DISCOVERY (Wellcome Trust)
Call for preliminary applications

Preliminary applications are now invited for the Seeding Drug Discovery initiative - deadline 9 November 2007.

A five-year, £91m initiative, Seeding Drug Discovery, aims to bridge the funding gap in early-stage drug discovery. The funding assists researchers within academia or the biotechnology industry to establish and advance drug-like small molecule based.

Applications are welcomed from across all therapeutic areas.

Deadline: 9 November 2007.

For more information click HERE

3rd call of the Research Councils Follow on Fund for proposals falling within the remit of BBSRC.

Applications are now invited for Research Council Funds Available to Demonstrate the Commercial Potential of Ideas.  The Fund is designed to help demonstrate the commercial potential of ideas arising from Research Council funded research. It provides financial support at the very early or pre-seed stage of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition. This is the proof-of-concept model where further work on an idea will take it through to the stage at which the route to commercialisation is clearer, for example a spin-out (seed or venture finance) or licensing opportunity. This often takes small amounts of funds to enable activities essential to preparing a robust business plan BBSRC commits £1.4m pa though three calls per year. It is expected that grants awarded through the Fund will be typically in the range of £90-100K over 12 months.

Applications to BBSRC for Follow-on support must fall within BBSRC> '> s remit and will draw substantially on the outputs of recent BBSRC research funding.

The closing date for receipt of proposals is 31 October 2007 Fro more information please click HERE

Enterprise Fellowships - Call for applications

BBSRC and The Royal Society of Edinburgh seek proposals to the Enterprise Fellowships scheme to support researchers who wish to play a key role in the commercialisation of their research. The Fellowships provide salary and formal business training, allowing the Fellows to focus on developing the commercial potential of their research over a 12-month period.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on 26 November 2007. Interviews for selected applicants will take place in Edinburgh during January/February 2008, with a view to the Fellowship commencing April 2008.

Application forms and further details are available HERE and HERE

Industry Interchange Programme (IIP)- Call for applications

IIP supports the short-term exchange, in either direction, of researchers between the science base and industry. The objective of the programme is to support interchanges that provide strategic advantage to the UK science base and industry arising from reciprocal access to facilities, expertise and/or knowledge, and an increased understanding of scientific issues of common concern. Individual awards are likely to be in the range of £10k - £30k and unlikely to exceed £50k without explicit justification.

The next closing date for applications is 19 October 2007. Application forms and further details can be found HERE

Royal Society Industry Fellowships - Call for applications

The Industry Fellowship scheme promotes collaboration between the UK science base and industry by supporting the exchange of mid-career researchers either from the science base to industry or vice-versa.

The deadline for applications to the current round of funding is 18 October 2007 further details from Dr Simon Cutler, Email: simon.cutler@bbsrc.ac.uk, Tel: 01793 413243.