The Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) is a research unit established by the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), A*STAR, to coordinate and drive translational research at the national level in strategic thematic areas.

In support of these strategic initiatives, BMRC provides funding for research activities that will contribute to the vision of Singapore becoming a premier centre for biomedical research and development.

The calls for proposals are aligned tightly with Singapore's current and future needs in the biomedical sciences.

Current Grant Calls include:

• Joint SBIC-SIgN Grant Call

The following are the past grant calls which have been announced by SBIC:

• Joint SBIC-SSCC Grant Call
• Third SBIC Grant Call
• Second SBIC Grant Call
• First SBIC Grant Call

Please click here to access the results of the past grant calls.

INTRODUCTION

The Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) and Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) are jointly announcing a Grant Call for collaborative research proposals. The theme for the Joint SBIC-SIgN Grant Call is “Imaging Immune System and Infectious Diseases”. 

Projects under the grant call could include (but are not limited to):

• In vivo imaging of the immune response in models of infection
• Imaging immunity in physiological and pathological conditions
• Imaging tumor development in vivo
• In vivo imaging of immunity in models of inflammation

FEATURES OF THE GRANT CALL

• SBIC is funded by BMRC and SERC, while SIgN is funded by BMRC. Under the joint grant call SBIC and SIgN will each contribute funding to make up a total grant budget of S$4M.
• Average funding per grant is about S$0.5M up to a maximum limit of S$1M.
• Grant Period ­is usually three (3) years contingent upon satisfactory progress as assessed during annual reviews.

ELIGIBILITY

The objectives of this grant call are to be achieved through innovative, collaborative, inter- and multi-disciplinary investigations.

Researchers from ALL institutions including restructured hospitals, national centres, research institutes, local universities and A*STAR are eligible to apply for Collaborative Grants.  

There shall be only one (1) Network Director for each Collaborative Grant application. In the context of collaborative research the Network Director is a Principal Investigator who co-ordinates team effort and manages the grant award. The research must be conducted in Singapore. There should be at least one (1) PI from the physical sciences and one (1) PI from the biological field. Collaboration between external and A*STAR researchers is strongly encouraged and applications involving such arrangements for collaboration would generally be given preference over those without such efforts. For applications whereby the Network Director is from an A*STAR research institute (RI), justification from the Executive Director of the Institute will be required on why the proposed research could not be covered by the RI’s own budget and what the RI is planning to contribute towards the proposed research.

Inter-institutional collaborations would be preferred over intra-institutional collaborations.

APPLICATION

Please click here to download the application (outline proposal) form.

An original application (hard copy) endorsed by the Host Institution and a soft copy (Word format) must be submitted to SBIC (Attention: Ms Tiffany Tayd) through the Host Institution’s research office.

Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC)
11 Biopolis Way,
Helios, #02-02
Singapore 138667
Tel: 64788732 Fax: 64789957

E-mail:

All outline proposals for Collaborative Grants must reach SBIC by 19 September 2008, 5.00pm.

Kindly state as the email subject/on your hardcopy application envelope that you are applying to the "Joint SBIC-SIgN Grant Call".

PIs of short-listed outline proposals will be informed by mid October 2008 to submit their full proposal. All full proposals will have to reach SBIC by 17 November 2008.

Full applications will be evaluated by an International panel who will also interview the applicants and the outcome will be announced by January 2009.