The Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Award is an open competition that aims to develop collaborative studies between researchers in different fields. This year the award will fund research aiming to enhance prenatal health to foster improved lifelong well-being for both mothers and children.
The award supports only collaborative studies between clinicians and non-clinical scientists who have expertise in molecular biology, computing, engineering, mathematics or another relevant discipline. The award is worth up to £330,000 over three years and can be used to support any directly incurred costs of the proposed research. Proposals must address unmet clinical needs and include details on how the research could benefit patients within 5-10 years.
Internal Expressions of Interest are invited, from which the University of Oxford will select one application to go forward to Rosetrees Trust. Each expression of interest must have two joint co-lead applicants, and must be submitted by 12 noon on Monday 12 February 2024 via the IRAMS online application system. Departmental Approver sign-off must also be provided in IRAMS. Please include an approximate costing with your application showing how you intend to spend the award; you do not need to submit an X5 costing with your internal application.
Rosetrees funding terms and conditions include a specific intellectual property policy, the terms of which may require further discussion with Rosetrees if a project either (a) would not be fully funded by the Rosetrees award (i.e. other third party funding may be used) or (b) would bring existing intellectual property into the project for further development.
If the proposed project would fall under either (a) or (b) above then please include this information with the Expression of Interest application.
Once the successful internal applicant has been notified on or around 20 February, they must submit a preliminary application to Rosetrees Trust in their Flexigrant application portal by the deadline of 04 March 2024. Research Services’ review and approval of this preliminary application will not be required. The template preliminary application form is available in SharePoint.
Rosetrees will invite applicants who are successful at outline application stage to submit a full application by a deadline in May or June 2024. If invited to submit a full application, standard review by Research Services will be required.
Guidelines relating to scope and criteria are available on the funder’s webpage. Additional guidance including FAQs from the funder and a template preliminary application form are available in SharePoint.
Please direct questions to research@medsci.ox.ac.uk
