The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Wellcome Leap Program. Please follow the links below for more information.
UCSC Contact: cfr@ucsc.edu
Funder: Wellcome Leap
Opportunity: Delta Tissue Program
INTEGRATED PLATFORMS FOR PREDICTING CHANGES IN TISSUE STATE
Deadline: May 17, 2021
Overview:
We know that infectious and noncommunicable diseases act at the levels of molecules, cells and tissues, so at least part of the solution resides in measuring and understanding their states. We need a new platform – a ‘tissue time machine’ – that can profile tissue states and predict transitions between states (‘Delta Tissue’ or ‘ΔT’). The platform would provide quantitative, multi-scale, multi-modal information sufficient to build integrated prediction models of key cell and tissue states and transitions.
Platform Demonstration Areas. To demonstrate and validate the ‘tissue time machine’, we have chosen to develop, test, and validate our platform in biomedical contexts that are as broad as possible: an infectious disease, tuberculosis (TB), and two different cancers, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Each represents a current, unmet biomedical challenge and features a complex, dynamic set of cell and tissue states and transitions.
Please read the full program announcement to better understand the program goals.
Funding Level
- Award amounts will be dependent on specific proposals and work selected for funding.
- Full direct and government-certified indirect costs appropriate to the execution of the research, are eligible.
- We are soliciting abstracts and proposals for work over 3 years (with a potential additional one-year option).
Eligibility
Performers from universities and research institutions: small, medium and large companies (including venture-backed); and government or non-profit research organizations are invited to propose.
Timeline
- May 17, 2021 Abstract due
- June 1, 2021 Feedback on abstract
- July 1, 2021 If invited, proposal due
- July 30, 2021 Proposal decisions
Special Instructions
Please promptly submit your proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s Internal Institutional Deadlines. For proposal support, or for any questions about institutional requirements, please send requests and questions to the research development team at resdev@ucsc.edu. A proposal development specialist will field your requests.
Call sent: April 19, 2021
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For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding