Asthma UK
Overview
The following awards will be offered between 2011 and 2016:
All applications are subject to external peer review and are assessed by the charity's Research Review Panel of leading scientific and clinical experts and lay reviewers.
Fellowships and Studentships
Two new types of fellowship award will be offered in 2012 then in alternate years thereafter: Senior Postdoctoral Development Awards and Senior Clinical Academic Development Awards. Capacity-building PhD Studentships will be offered in the alternate years between the fellowship awards, starting in 2013.
Commissioned research
Priority Needs Grants of variable amounts will be offered in alternate years starting in 2012 to address some of the major unanswered questions in asthma research and service delivery as highlighted by Asthma UK. They will be available for up to 5 years, depending on the topic.
Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research
In May 2012 they invited applications to create a newcentre for applied research. The purpose of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research is to forge a mutually beneficial, forward-looking collaboration across a number of Universities and partner NHS organisations, focused on improving outcomes for people of all ages affected by asthma through the conduct and application of applied health research.
The new Centre will use a networked model to bring together leading researchers to develop large scale clinical trials and other investigative studies across the UK. Applied health research funded within this Centre should provide evidence to improve health outcomes for people with asthma and should be focused on the later stages of the research process, where research findings are expected to impact on healthcare within a 5 to 10 year timescale.
Project Grants
Every two years from 2013, they will invite applications for larger, longer duration grants to tackle challenges in stable research fields and research fields in flux aligned with our priority research areas.
Innovation grants
In alternate years from 2014, they will offer small grants to explore original ideas in inherently novel priority asthma research areas.