Call For Proposal

In 2012, the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), where both parties agreed to collaborate on scientific and technological research to alleviate some of the world’s most critical global health and development issues, for the benefit of the people of India and other developing countries.

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This partnership seeks to identify opportunities to initiate and promote scientific and technological research in the country, to provide India-specific solutions for the country, which can then be adapted for use in other developing countries. Specifically, the partnership focuses on encouraging research and exploring avenues to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity; developing scientific and technical solutions for infectious diseases; strengthening India’s scientific translation capacity; developing scientific and technical advances related to agriculture, food and nutrition, among others

Grand Challenges initiatives follow these core principles:

1. Strategic and well-articulated grand challenges serve both to focus research efforts and capture the imagination and engage the world’s best researchers.
2. Projects are selected based on national and societal need and transparent calls for proposals seeking the best ideas.
3. Funders, investigators and other stakeholders actively collaborate to accelerate progress and integrate advances to ensure these advanced technologies reach to developing countries masses
4. Projects are selected not only for scientific excellence, but also for their likelihood to achieve the desired impact, and they are milestone-driven and actively managed to that end.
5. Projects and investigators will have to follow global access commitments to ensure the fruits of their research are available to those most in need.

Here we announce a call on ‘Antimicrobial Resistance’, a program directed at addressing challenges that we face in tackling antimicrobial resistance in India and in comparable geographies.

This call is part of a global call on antimicrobial resistance, where Grand Challenges partners from Brazil, South Africa, Africa and India have come together and announced a call for proposals. Each country partner will be running the call in their country.

Given the international nature of this call, there is scope for international collaborations across partner countries.

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is specific to Indian researchers [1]. We encourage partnerships with researchers in other countries, especially where the opportunity exists to build on established collaborations.

[1] *An Individual should be a Citizen of India

*Indian entities are defined as those established under any relevant statute, agreement, rule or

regulation in India.

This call seeks proposals that are exploratory or seek to develop proof of concept in three areas, specifically solutions for surveillance, low-cost technologies and products that will improve infection prevention in healthcare settings and technologies that will remove antibiotics/antimicrobials from effluents.

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is specific to Indian researchers [1]. We encourage partnerships with researchers in other countries, especially where the opportunity exists to build on established collaborations.

[1] *An Individual should be a Citizen of India

*Indian entities are defined as those established under any relevant statute, agreement, rule or

regulation in India.

Proposals are required to be submitted online only. For submission of proposals, applicants need to register with BIRAC through “User Registration”. Additional information on user registration and proposal submission are available online at BIRAC website at www.birac.nic.in.

No Hard Copy to be submitted. Proposals submitted online only would be considered.

Announcement Date: 11-04-2018
Last Submission Date: 25-05-2018 12:00 AM