​The Academic Clinical Programme (ACP) Programme Grant is an academic medicine initiative designed to seed development and facilitate advancement of the ACPs’ academic medicine strategic goals.

The grant is awarded based on merit to promising projects or candidates in 4 broad areas:

1. Education (EDU) Support
2. Clinical & Systems Innovation (CSI) Support, including Main Grant and Innovation Seed Grant (ISG)
3. Research Support, including Pitch-for-Fund (PFF) and Nurturing Clinician Researcher Scheme (NCRS)
4. Global Health (GH) Support.

Some of its key principles are:

1. Seed development of initiatives with academic merit and with potential of wide impact implementation across SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC).
2. Promote collaborations with Joint Institutes, SingHealth Duke-NUS Disease Centres, Duke-NUS Signature Research Programmes, and/or relevant external entities.
3. To encourage development of healthcare programmes or initiatives which are able to garner multi-source funding and promote financial sustainability in the long run.
4. To promote transformative innovation in healthcare delivery, and to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurship in line with academic medicine priorities.

Application for FY2026 Cycle 1 is now closed.

Please work with your ACP and submit your application through AMgrants System.

• Click here for account creation guide and training videos.
• Click here for user guide on application submission.
• Click here for user guide on application submission (for NCRS only).