Grand Challenges Canada: Request for Proposals on Point-of-Care Diagnostics:
Letters of Intent are due on July 12, 2010
Grand Challenges Canada announces an important new research funding
opportunity in global health. This request for proposal (RFP),
addressing the first in a series of Grand Challenges, is targeted
exclusively at researchers in low- and middle-income countries. The
aim is to create innovative new components for a point-of-care (POC)
diagnostics platform for use in low resource settings. The advanced
platform, among other features, will be easy to use, extremely low cost,
multiplexed, and be capable of defining the stage of development of the
disease.
Grand Challenges Canada will fund proposals to advance the state of the
art in component technologies focused on the following topic areas:
1) sample collection, concentration, and preparation;
2) amplification and detection technologies;
3) readoutand signal transduction;
4) enabling technologies for diagnostics;
5) implementation research for point-of-care diagnostics.
Assuming a sufficient number of proposals of sufficient merit, this RFP
is expected to fund between 10-20 grants of varying amounts for an
aggregate total cost of up to $12 million Canadian over three years.
Applicant organizations must be individual non-profit organizations or
for-profit companies. The Principal Investigator must be from a low- or
middle-income country. Partnerships with Canadian scientists are
encouraged but not required.
Grand Challenges Canada is a unique and independent not-for-profit
organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people
in developing countries by integrating scientific, technological,
business and social innovation. Grand Challenges Canada works with the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other global health foundations
and organizations to find sustainable long-term solutions to the most
pressing health challenges. Grand Challenges Canada is hosted at the
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health.
Letters of Intent are due on July 12, 2010.
For further details and instructions to apply, see
http://www.grandchallenges.ca
Please submit queries to info@grandchallenges.ca
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