Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust – Translational Biomedical Research Award

Internal expression of interest (EOI) deadline: noon on Tuesday 12 January 2021

The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust (JTT) has invited the University to submit one application to its Translational Biomedical Research Award.

The JTT is looking for applications of up to £1m that demonstrate a clear pathway to benefit patients in any discipline or disease area. Applicants must already have generated data or samples that ready their work to be translated to clinical outcomes.

Eligibility requirements:

1. All research must be undertaken, and funding is restricted to work, including data collection, carried out in the United Kingdom.
2. Any co-applicants are expected to be actively involved in the work. Their precise role and time commitment must be stated.
3. The award may not be used to meet the salary costs of the principal applicants, who should be in institutionally funded posts for the duration of the grant.
4. There must be visible strategic commitment to the research by the host institution.
5. All outcomes from the grant must be made freely available within three months of publication.
6. Eligible applicants must be in a core-funded post, the award cannot be used to meet salary costs of the principal applicant, and applicants must be able to spend the majority of their research time on the funded project.
7. The award cannot be used to contribute to a commercial profit directly or indirectly for a manufacturer. Applications with a manufacturer providing for costs will be dismissed.
8. The JTT will not support applications that supplement an existing project support by other funding bodies, or cover expenditure already incurred.

Please refer to the JTT’s guidance for applicants for full details on project and PI eligibility, as well as a details of their full application.

If you wish to apply for this award you must submit an EOI in IRAMS by noon on 12 January 2021. The EOI requests similar information as the JTT's award application.

The deadline to submit the preliminary application to the JTT is 18 February 2021, meaning all applications must be with Research Services by 11 February 2021. The selected applicant will have three weeks following the internal selection process to ready their external application. If invited by the JTT, applicants will need to submit their full application for 10 June 2021.

Please direct queries to research@medsci.ox.ac.uk.