Dunedin School of Medicine

Network - Medical Research Funding Opportunities with an International Focus

Funding Body

Funding Opportunity

Due Date

Updated

Eni Foundation

2008 focus on childrens health to reduce incidence of malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS.

Ongoing

2011

Fondation Merieux

Relates to HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other infectious diseases in developing countries Scientific Fellowship:
Young scientists from emerging
nations who want to collaborate
with an institution in an emerging
country.
Grants Programme:
run by locals in developing
countries

1 Sept and 1 March each year

2011

Ford Foundations

Education and scholarships – HIV/AIDS, sexuality and reproductive health, community development

Ongoing

2011

Gates Foundation

Grants for global health programmes

Ongoing

2011

International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative Europe

Innovation Fund: to bring novel early-stage technologies to AIDS vaccine research

Ongoing

2011

Levi Strauss Foundation

Preventing spread of HIV/AIDS, increasing economic development

Ongoing

2011

Medical Research Council (UK)

Medical Research
Must be based in the UK or in collaboration with a UK Researcher

Various – refer to website

2011

Morgan Family Charitable Foundation

Fund overseas projects that have a NZ on-the-ground involvement

Ongoing

2011

The Rockefeller Foundation

Research Grants:
Promoting collaboration in disease surveillance and response across countries and within regions

Ongoing

2011

The Starr Foundation

Grants for education, medicine and healthcare, human needs.
Scholarships for international students

Ongoing

2011

The Global Fund

Grants to locally developed
programmes throughout Africa,
Asia, the Middle East, Latin
America, eastern Europe and the Caribbean to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Ongoing

2011

UBS Optimus Foundation

Medical and biological research funding with focus on The Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Switzerland

Ongoing

2011

Volkswagen

Cooperative research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. MUST BE IN COLLABORATION WITH
GERMAN RESEARCHERS

Ongoing

2011

The Wellcome Trust

Advancing knowledge: supporting research to increase understanding of health and disease.
Fostering a research community
and individual researchers
Geographic Focus: UK, sub-
Saharan Africa and South-East
Asia.

Ongoing

2011

The Boeing Company

Health and Human Services (International) supports innovative and collaborative programmes that provide routes to individual economic self-sufficiency

Ongoing

2011

Compiled by the Centre for International Health - 2011

Applications

Please note that Network Members will still have to send applications via the Research and Enterprise Office:

 

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