Interim Communicable Diseases Agency (iCDA) Catalyst Grant

Closes On

28 Feb 2025

Funding Source

External

PI Salary Support

ACP/SDDC Affiliation

No ACP/SDDC affiliation required

Funding Per Grant Amount

S$ 50,000

Qualification

Not Specified

Academic Appointment

Funding Period

12 months

Citizenship

Foreigner / S / PR

Call Opens

03 Feb 2025

SMC/SDC Registered

Objective

The Catalyst Grant is awarded by the iCDA with funding from the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) (to be established in the first half of 2025), to foster collaborative research between clinicians and scientists and between hospitals and/or research centers/academic institutions. Applications proposing inter-departmental collaborations within the same organization will not be considered for funding.

Grant call focus

Health and Biomedical Sciences (HBMS) infectious disease priority areas, namely antimicrobial resistance, vector-borne diseases, respiratory tract infections (including COVID-19 and tuberculosis), and HIV.

Funding Details

The award includes up to $50,000 per project (indirect cost will not be supported) for up to 12 months.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should have an awareness of the feasibility to complete the study within the 12 months' timeframe, as project extension requests will be largely unsupported unless there are compelling reasons. Interested researchers based in Singapore and working in the above HBMS infectious disease priority areas are welcome to apply.

The Lead Principal Investigator (Lead-PI) should:

Hold a primary appointment in either public health institutions, national specialty centres, universities/academic medical centers and be salaried by the Institution.
Hold a minimum of 9 months' employment with a local Singapore institution. Upon award, the PI must agree to fulfil at least 6 months of residency in Singapore for each calendar year over the duration of the grant award.

Note:

The Catalyst Grant is targeted at junior investigators. Applicants with substantial research experience should not apply as Lead-PI under this grant category, although may be included in a mentoring or supervisory capacity.
Priority will be given to Lead-PIs who are five years or less research experience after PhD or advanced specialty clinical training.
Awardees who are funded in earlier FY will not be supported.

Submission

Interested applicants are invited to complete the "Catalyst Grant - Application Form FY2025_v2.0" and submit i) a single Microsoft Word document, without signatures, and ii) a single PDF document, with signatures, through the Host Institutional Research Office to the grant administrators (Jacelyn_Chan@moh.gov.sg / Jocelyn_Jin@moh.gov.sg) by 28 February 2025 (Friday), 6pm.

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.

Contact Person

Grant Administrators:

Jacelyn Chan (Jacelyn_Chan@moh.gov.sg) /

Jocelyn Jin (Jocelyn_Jin@moh.gov.sg)

Additional Information

Catalyst Grant - Application Form_FY2025_v2.0.docx