Healthy and Meaningful Longevity – Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (HML-HLCA)

Closes On

06 Feb 2025

Funding Source

External

PI Salary Support

ACP/SDDC Affiliation

No ACP/SDDC affiliation required

Funding Per Grant Amount

S$ 200,000

Qualification

Not Specified

Academic Appointment

Funding Period

2 years

Citizenship

Foreigner / S / PR

Call Opens

02 Jan 2025

SMC/SDC Registered

Objective

In collaboration with United States National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the global collaborators of the Healthy Longevity Global Challenge, Singapore will be supporting the Catalyst Awards across the 3 years from 2020 to 2022; now extending to 2025.

As part of the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards will reward bold, new, potentially transformative ideas to improve the physical, mental, or social well-being for people as they age and in a measurable and equitable way.
In particular, they seek ideas that will extend the human health span through innovations in disease prevention, biology, mobility and function, social connectedness, productive longevity and more.

Ideas could focus on early-, mid-, or late-life, as long as it ultimately extends the human health span.

For more details, please refer to the website here.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to teams representing public and/or private sector institutions across all disciplines. Individuals are not eligible to apply. While there is no restriction on the nationality of members in the project team, the entity represented must be legally registered in Singapore. Consortiums with Singapore registered entities are also eligible to apply.
Project teams are to identify a ‘Host Institution’ for the administration of the Research including the receipt of funding.
A PI can submit only one application. However, he/she may be part of the Project Team of other Catalyst Award proposal applications.

The Lead PI, Co-Investigator(s) and Collaborator(s) must fulfil the eligibility criteria specified under the table shown below:

Role	Definition	Eligibility Criteria
Lead PI	An individual who is expected to be actively involved in overall project management and accountable for deliverables.	He/She must hold a primary appointment in a local public/private institution and salaried by the institution.
Co-Investigator (Co-I)	An individual involved in the scientific development and execution of the project. A co-Investigator typically devotes a higher percentage of effort to the project compared to a collaborator and is considered a key research personnel of the "Research Team". There is no limit on the no. of participating Co-Is.	He/She should be a salaried employee of a local public/private institution.
Collaborator	An individual involved in the scientific development and execution of project. A collaborator typically devotes only a specific percentage of effort to the project. There is no limit on the no. of participating collaborators.	He/She can be from local/overseas/public/private institutions.

Role

Definition

Eligibility Criteria

Lead PI

An individual who is expected to be actively involved in overall project management and accountable for deliverables.

He/She must hold a primary appointment in a local public/private institution and salaried by the institution.

Co-Investigator (Co-I)

An individual involved in the scientific development and execution of the project. A co-Investigator typically devotes a higher percentage of effort to the project compared to a collaborator

and is considered a key research personnel of the "Research Team". There is no limit on the no. of participating Co-Is.

He/She should be a salaried employee of a local public/private institution.

Collaborator

An individual involved in the scientific development and execution of project. A collaborator typically devotes only a specific percentage of effort to the project. There is no limit on the no. of participating collaborators.

He/She can be from local/overseas/public/private institutions.

Funding Details

Funding support of up to S$200,000 per project (inclusive of 30% indirect costs) for 2 years.

Submission

Interested applicants can access the application page on Integrated Grant Management System (IGMS). Please follow the 'IGMS Application Guide' PDF file and 'READ ME INSTRUCTIONS' PDF file which can be found in the zipped file when applying for the grant.

Interested applicants must submit their applications using the templates found in the zipped file ‘hlca-guide-and-application-forms’ and upload these documents to the relevant sections in IGMS:

Research proposal
CV template (PI, Co-I/Collab)
Other Attachments Template (Signatories and Other Support)

All applications must be endorsed by Host Institution (HI)’s Director of Research (DOR) by 6 Feb 2025 (Thursday), 5pm.

Note
SingHealth PIs are to please refer to your respective Institutional Research Administrators for guidance on internal deadlines and submission procedures set by your institutions.

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