NMRC CS-IRG New Investigator Grant (CS-IRG-NIG)

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Objective

The Clinician Scientist – New Investigator Grant (CS-NIG) is a subcategory of the CS-IRG to cater for new clinical investigators to establish themselves as independent PIs. Applicants with substantial research experience will not be accepted under this category.

Areas of Research

The CS-NIG is open to applications in all research themes.

Applications are assessed based on scientific merit and relevance to Singapore.The following seven disease areas (including multi-morbidity) have been identified as national priorities for research:

• Cancers and neoplasms
• Cardiovascular
• Eye
• Infection
• Mental health (disorders)
• Metabolic and endocrine
• Neurological

Funding Details

The award includes up to $270.4k grant support per project for 3 years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only one PI is allowed per application. The number of application by an individual (as PI) is capped at 1 grant application per grant type in a grant call.
• Applicant applying as Principal Investigator is required to fulfil the following criteria at the point of application:
  1. Hold a primary appointment in a public healthcare institution or autonomous university in Singapore.
  2. Salaried by a public healthcare institution or autonomous university in Singapore from time of award.
  3. Hold a minimum of 9 months employment (per calendar year) with local public institution(s).
  4. Applicants must not have received external competitive funding exceeding $500,000 (direct costs only), to conduct their own research project as the PI.
  • Applicants who are applying under the new investigator category have to work with a mentor for guidance in their research. This mentoring will provide support for a period of supervised research leading eventually to the investigators conducting larger scale research projects independently. Please note that the NIG is intended to fund a new investigator's independent project, and not to provide additional funding for the mentor's project.PIs must hold qualificationsii in one of the following categories:
    • Medical/Dental applicants should hold medical qualifications (e.g. MBBS, MD, BDS or equivalent).
    • Healthcare professionals with non-medical qualifications, such as nurses, pharmacists, optometrists and other allied health professions listed on this website here opens in a new tab in clinical practice and hold PhD (or equivalent) or a postgraduate qualification listed in Table 1 which can be found in the website here (non-exhaustive list) are eligible.
    • Other applicants (e.g. non-clinically qualified or non-practising healthcare professionals) may be considered on a case-by-case basis, if the proposed work is in human clinical research (i.e., research involving direct interaction with human subjects, excluding laboratory-only studies without clinical application), and they hold PhD (or equivalent).

Note: ⁱⁱRecipients of NMRC Talent Awards are exempt from this requirement.

Submission

All applications must be submitted and endorsed by the Host Institution's Director of Research (DOR) online via Research Grants Portal (RGP) (internet accessible link).

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

Ms Jilessica Lee

Email: jilessica.lee@mohh.com.sg

Additional Information

• For more information on CS-IRG-NIG, please visit NMRC's website here.
• Please download the Application package.