More opportunities to present your innovative ideas are coming in fresh to the EIC Challenge Platform. Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, has opened the 2022 calls for research grants in five different areas: Drug discovery; AI for predictive diagnostics & therapeutic target discovery; Chemistry in the cloud; Innovation within green chemistry; Sustainability in healthcare R&D. These research grants, that can go up to 500,000€, aim to stimulate innovative research in challenging areas of future importance.
Merck Research Grants - Drug Discovery
This call for research proposals is looking to advance the field of drug discovery with projects that can identify and characterise the next game-changing molecule to help cure cancer, autoimmune / neuroinflammatory disease or infertility.
- Opportunity: 3 grants comprising up to 500,000 €/year for 3 years with the option of extension.
- Deadline: Submission deadline is 31 August 2022.
If you’re interested, learn more about this call.
Merck Research Grants - AI for predictive diagnostics & therapeutic target discovery
This call for research proposals is seeking for solutions that can substantially advance Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning mediated predictive diagnostics and drug target discovery with the goal of developing tools to augment current approaches.
- Opportunity: grant comprising between 100,000 - 300,000 $/year for 2 years with the option of extension.
- Deadline: Submission deadline is 31 August 2022.
If you’re interested, learn more about this call.
Merck Research Grants - Chemistry in the cloud – Rapid synthesis through automation
With a richer and more complex scenario in chemistry over the last years, research and development cycles are getting longer. This limits innovation in material science or pharmaceutical drug discovery. Many incredible recent advances in digital tools combining chemistry and data could help to solve this problem. Submitted proposals should target the question of how these technologies change the future of the chemical lab and increase efficiency through automation.
- Opportunity: 1 grant comprising 100,000 €/year for 3 years
- Deadline: Submission deadline is 31 August 2022.
If you’re interested, learn more about this call.
Merck Research Grants - Innovation within green chemistry
Merck is a science-driven organisation and conducts its business in healthcare, life science and electronics. Proposals to this challenge should find an application in the field of green chemistry to one of these three sectors.
- Opportunity: 1 grant comprising 100,000 € for 1 year with potential further collaboration
- Deadline: Submission deadline is 31 August 2022.
If you’re interested, learn more about this call.
Merck Research Grants - Sustainability in healthcare R&D
This call for research proposals is seeking solutions along the pharmaceutical R&D value chain that can tangibly improve sustainability aspects in R&D. Proposals should be relevant to Merck’s healthcare business.
- Opportunity: 1 grant comprising 100,000 € for 1 year
- Deadline: Submission deadline is 31 August 2022.
If you’re interested, learn more about this call.
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