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Objective

The Clinician Scientist Individual Research Grant (CS-IRG) is provided to Clinician Scientists (CS) to enable them to carry out medical research on a specifically defined topic for a period of 3 years in local public institution. Projects involving prospective patient/subject recruitment may apply for up to 5 years. CS-IRG supports basic, clinical and translational research

Areas of Research

The following seven disease areas have been identified as national priorities for research:

1. Cancers and neoplasms
2. Cardiovascular
3. Eye
4. Infection
5. Mental health
6. Metabolic and endocrine
7. Neurological

Funding Details

The award includes up to $1.95M (inclusive of up to 30% indirect costs) per project for 3 years. Projects involving prospective patient/subject recruitment may apply for up to 5 years.

For more information about the funding details, please take a look at the website here (internet accessible link).

Eligibility Criteria

• Grant application to be led by a Clinical PI:
• PI must be clinically qualified (i.e. with MD/MBBS/BDS) and preferably with post-graduate clinicalbtraining and experience

• Allied Health Professionals* who meet the following conditions may apply
• Non-medically trained PIs who are nurses, pharmacists or other allied health professions listed on the MOH's website* in clinical practice, doing research in clinical settings or doing research with clinical and healthcare applications/relevance, are eligible to apply.
• Applicants who are working in human clinical research, including epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and whose research is clinically relevant and has potential health impact, will be considered as exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
• Non-medically trained applicants conducting wet laboratory based research are not eligible.
• Applicants must possess a minimum academic qualification of a PhD or the equivalent training.
• Recipients of NMRC Human Capital Awards, Transition Award and NMRC Research Training Fellowship are eligible to apply.
•  *Please find the list of Allied Health Professionals is in MOH's website here.

• For proposals involving patients, the clinical PI or co-I should be SMC registered; or should be able to demonstrate ability to access patients through SMC registered collaborators.

• For some CS-IRG proposals it is recognized that some studies may be pre-clinical and do not require the PI to be SMC registered.

Additional Eligibility Criteria

1. Hold a primary appointment in a local public hospital/public health institutions/national specialty centre/public universities/Academic Medical Centres and salaried by the institution.

2. Be an independent PI with a demonstrated track record of research as evidenced by the award of nationally competitive funding (international funding to be considered on a case by case basis) or substantial publication record.

3. Have a laboratory or clinical research program that carries out research in Singapore.

4. Hold a minimum of 9 months employment with a local Singapore institution. Upon award, the PI must agree to fulfill at least 6 months of residency in Singapore for each calendar year over the duration of the grant award.

5. No outstanding reports from previous BMRC, NMRC grants and other national grants. 

Submission

All applications must be submitted and endorsed by the Host Institution's Director of Research (DOR) online via IGMS (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_XH_LEE@moh.gov.sg

Additional Information

• Please download the  'Application Guide and Template' documents from NMRC's website here (internet accessible link).

• For more information on CS-IRG, please visit NMRC's website here (internet accessible link).