Project scope

This scheme intends to fund short (up to 12 months) collaborative projects that will assist the translation of research towards tropical healthcare with a highlight focus area in diagnostic technologies (tools, devices, platform technologies, and/or digital health solutions) for tropical and infectious diseases. The call aims to utilise pre-existing resources made available by on-the-ground researchers in MORU in which Oxford based researchers would want to test their diagnostics tools on appropriate cohort pool on.

Appendices 1 and 2 provide two different representations of the translational pathway and some examples of translational research activities that align with each stage (please note these lists are non-exhaustive). The MORU-Oxford DiTi call will support projects that are beyond stage D1 (Appendix 1) and TRL 1 (Appendix 2)*.

The funding will not support: Discovery research (D1 or TRL1 – see Appendices 1 and 2); Entire translational projects; Staff between posts/funding (i.e. as “bridging” funds), or D.Phil/PhD studentships; Continuation of pre-existing research grants.

Activities NOT supported by DiTi:

• Identification or discovery of targets
• Exploratory science without pre-existing background data
• Candidate screening stage
• Mechanisms of action as a standalone project
• Fundamental sciences work
  

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