Funding opportunity

South Africa-UK health research collaboration: multimorbidity of infectious diseases and NCDs

• Opportunity status: Closed
• Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Co-funders: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
• Funding type: Grant
• Total fund: £3,000,000
• Maximum award: £600,000
• Publication date: 12 February 2024
• Opening date: 12 February 2024
• Closing date: 15 April 2024 4:00pm UK time

MRC and SAMRC invite health research applications in the focus area of multimorbidity of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

You must be:

• a South Africa-UK collaboration and can additionally include African collaborators
• submitted to SAMRC by the South African lead investigator, on behalf of the consortium
• official development assistance-eligible and focused on research of primary relevance to South Africa or low and middle-income countries

Up to 70 million South African Rand (approximately £3 million) is available for the focus area, with an expectation that we will fund several three-year projects per topic.

See the full funding opportunity details of the scheme and apply on the SAMRC website.

Contact details

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For help and advice on costings and writing your proposal please contact your research office in the first instance, allowing sufficient time for your organisation’s submission process.

Ask about this funding opportunity

This funding opportunity is led by SAMRC please direct any requests for information and questions or queries on this by emailing gipd.ispf@mrc.ac.za

Aaron Holiday, International Programme Manager is (MRC lead)

Email: international@mrc.ukri.org