These awards support innovative research on the impact of climate change on human health. They focus on collaborative projects that break traditional disciplinary limits and develop interdisciplinary methods to address complex, cumulative health challenges, especially for vulnerable populations.
Research topics include (partial list): -The role of climate change in exacerbating vector borne-, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) -Using “big data” to predictively model aspects of health impacted by climate change -Engineering or architectural approaches to alleviating climate related health risks -Developing new research tools at the interface of health and climate-informed disciplines
Budget: $375,000 total
Duration: 3 years
Eligibility:US or Canadian lead PI required. BGU researcher may serve as CI.
This call is for research on the human gut microbiome. Proposals should investigate both bacterial and non-bacterial microbiomes to uncover the mechanisms of interaction between the host and these diverse microbiomes. The goal is to improve our understanding of these interactions to potentially improve human health.
This program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education. This program is “field-initiated” – Proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
This program supports education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships. Research conducted will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching happen (e.g., schools, universities, community centers, parks, museums, other workplaces).
Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. This program track is designed to lead to further requests for funding at much more significant levels.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation believes that early support for innovative ideas can lead to improvements in preventing, predicting, diagnosing and treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). This grant enables researchers worldwide to test ideas, gather and share data, and collaborate to advance the understanding of IBD.
Budget: Individual Research Projects – up to $ 150,000; Collaborative Projects – up to $ 300,000.
Increase your chances of winning a grant and potential for future commercialization!
If you are considering or are in the process of writing a grant for a project with potential commercial applications in the BIO field, feel free to approach our unit for support and direction.
BIO field includes:
Pharma
Biotechnology
Diagnostics
Medical Device
Digital Health
Our support includes:
Assistance with defining the future product in terms of market needs, competitor and market analysis, business model etc.
Defining important research milestones that can increase the potential for future commercialization.
*This is a service offered in collaboration with the RDA*
The Ben-Gurion University Center for Health Economics Research (BGU-CHER)
Call for Multidisciplinary Research Projects
The Ben-Gurion University Center for Health Economics Research aims to promote innovative interdisciplinary research in healthcare and economics that will be implemented and disseminated to the Israeli research and policy communities.
The center organized a launch event on June 3, 2024. The conference featured collaborative research working groups with representatives of health organizations and started several cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Following the conference, BGU-CHER is launching a call for one-year seed funding for all relevant BGU faculty (PIs). Proposals should align with the BGU-CHER aim, with a preference given to research teams that participated in the conference. This call aims to encourage fresh cross-disciplinary research from new collaborative teams and enhance their potential for external competitive grants. Suggested topics can include (but are not limited to): the demand for and supply of health care, equality and fairness in healthcare finance and delivery, health and environmental economics, and predictive models in health.
Budget: 12,500 NIS for 1 year (per team). The PI must be a BGU faculty member.
The track encourages applied research with innovative technological feasibility originating in academia. The main goal is to bring the project to a stage where an Israeli commercial industrial company will adopt it with the aim of developing a product.
Priority fields by Israeli innovation authority:
Carbon capture and storage
Protein structure prediction
Semiconductor-2D
Bioelectricity
4D Printing
Organ-on-a-Chip
Single Cell analysis
Triboelectric nanogenerator
Drug Delivery
Bio-manufacturing
Budget: An institution that operates alone will receive an investment of 75%-85%, with a maximum amount of 440,000₪ per year
Duration: Up to two years
Deadline: August 8, 2024
Those who submit in this round are expected to receive the Authority’s answer by mid-December 2024.
Additional Details: Please send abstract (up to 600 words) describing desired research to: [email protected]. BGN business development team will contact applicants with further instructions and guidance for the submission process.
Grant Awardees
Congratulations to our recent recipients of research grants!
Alzheimers Research UK (ARUK)
Prof. Daniel Gitler (Department of Physiology and Cell Biology)
Please note: The outcomes of research grant applications to the ISF will be announced in the second half of August.