Funding Opportunities
This page contains information about internal funding calls and external funding opportunities with industry. If you are thinking of applying, please read all terms and conditions and feel free to get in touch with the named Oxford contact to talk more about the opportunity.
The CSL Research Acceleration Initiative (RAI) offers funding of up to $400k USD over two years, which can contribute towards salary costs, consumables,
Application timeline and process:
- Applicants are required to submit a 300-word non-confidential abstract via the CSL online application portal.
- Application deadline: 20 February 2025.
- Please contact Florian Groelly, Business Partnerships Office, florian.groelly@medsci.ox.ac.uk to obtain the link to the online application portal.
Areas of interest
The CSL RAI aims to fast-track discovery of innovative biotherapies through partnerships between CSL and academics. The call is targeted at early-stage, well-defined translational proposals that align with the CSL Therapeutic and Focus Areas (see the full list in the flyer).
1. Immunology, transplant and auto-immune
2. Haematology
3. Cardiovascular
4. Renal
5. Vaccines
6. Genetic medicine
7. Plasma proteins
Importantly, eligible projects must be amenable to a CSL platform:
- Plasma Protein Technology
- Recombinant Protein Technology
- Genetic Medicine
- Vaccines Technology
Example of projects
- Human target validation and translational studies using patient samples
- Mechanism of action studies for therapeutic candidates
- Benchmarking to provide proof-of-concept for the differentiation of novel therapeutics to standard-of- care or competing therapeutics in development
- Target validation using genetic knock-out/knock-in or tool compounds in preclinical disease models
- Characterisation of therapeutic candidates (e.g. affinity, potency, selectivity, and developability)
Contact
Please reach out to Florian Groelly at florian.groelly@medsci.ox.ac.uk if you have additional questions or wish to apply.
Webinars
CSL is running information webinars for academics. Please register here.
- Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 3pm-4pm GMT
- Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10am-11am GMT