Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/diagnostics/Pages/Objectives.aspx
Sponsor/Award: Grand Challenges in Global Health - POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS - PHASE I - (BY INVITATION ONLY) FULL APPLICATION

Grant Amount: NO MAXIMUM STATED
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: May 25, 2010
Sponsor's: Jun 01, 2010

Subject Areas: Developing or Underdeveloped Nations, Diagnostics And Early Detection, Medical or Diagnostic Imaging, Medical Instrumentation, Medical Technology, Medical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Medical Devices, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Diagnosis, Pathogens, Genomics, Disease, Health
Description:

We seek to create point of care platforms that share common standards for use, development and integration. This will enable diagnostic devices that are lower cost, easier to use, more readily accepted, more thoroughly disseminated and more appropriate for health care in the developing world. We hope to achieve the design and initial proof-of-principle for a POC platform with a target product profile (TPP). In order to create common diagnostic platforms with common performance, training and logistics aspects suitable for low resource settings, it is important to achieve the following objectives: 1. Develop a framework for collaboration by recommending a common set of technical and business standards for the development and integration of diagnostics components 2. Advance the state of the art in critical component technologies consistent with the business and technical standards developed under this program 3. Integrate best-in-class component technologies into diagnostic platforms under the framework of standards developed in this program Phase I of this effort will be focused mainly on achieving Objectives 1 and 2: developing standards related to component integration, user experience and logistics requirements and conducting proof-of-principle investigations into component technologies.

Those applicants who are eligible and have projects of further interest to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be contacted directly and will be invited to submit a full proposal. If invited based upon a successful LOI, submission of a full proposal to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Application Details:

This RFP will make use of a mandatory two-step application process: Step 1: Submission of a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There is a five (5) page limit on the LOI. Applicant organizations submitting an LOI MUST fully meet the eligibility criteria listed in the guidelines. Letters of Inquiry must be submitted electronically, using the forms and process described in the program guidelines Applicants addressing more than one Topic Area must submit a separate LOI for each Topic Area. Multiple LOIs from the same organization are permitted.

The focus of this RFP will be exclusively on Phase I. Some details regarding Phase II are stated in the guidelines to give applicants insight into how the organization will likely shape the program in years 4-6. However, due to the changing landscape for technologies, the actual implementation of Phase II may be somewhat different than what is envisioned today. Western's Indirect Costs Policy can be viewed at http://www.uwo.ca/research/docs/IDCPolicy.pdf . Individuals who wish to request an exception to this policy are recommended to do so well in advance of the sponsor deadline, and the completion of a ROLA Proposal. Individual adjustments to ROLA Proposal will be made on approval only by RD&S directly.

40% INDIRECT COSTS MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.

NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline.
Western Contacts: Pocock,Katy
Russelo,Theresa M

Sponsor Contacts:

GRANDCHALLENGES@GATESFOUNDATION.ORG
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
P.O. Box 23350
Seattle
Seattle, Washington, United States