Funding

Support available

We work with you in developing grant proposals. All aspects of your project are considered including supporting evidence, study design/approach, statistics, PPIE, research inclusion, health economics, regulatory compliance along with how to pitch and help with the level of complexity involved.

• We advise and work with you on preparing budgets including Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Tool (SoECATs) for clinical research.
• We identify suitable funders and funding calls – including government and NIHR, charity and industry funders.
• We offer guidance on sponsorship and ethics.
• We review your draft proposals, helping to tailor to the funder and ensuring completeness.
• We connect you with experts e.g. statisticians, pharmacy, Reading Centre and specialists in different areas of ophthalmology across both UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields.
• We advise on contracts associated with funding awards e.g. sign-off on awards and setting up collaboration/data sharing agreements

Projects we support include:

• Career development – pre-doctoral, PhD, post-doctoral fellowships
• Project grants (e.g. interventional trials, observational studies, early phase studies, data analysis projects (retrospective and prospective))
• Infrastructure awards

Checklist

• We ask all applicants to contact us 3 months before a grant deadline, or as soon as you have an overview of your project. This eases the grant application process, allows focus on draft reviews which affect success outcomes, and aid in the concurrent development of an ethics application if funding is awarded.
• Our process is to firstly discuss the project over a call at what we call a ‘Research development group’ meeting. This is an informal meeting for us to understand your project, determine the support and resources your project will require and to also provide you with some guidance. This can prevent delays after funding approval.
• If your project involves Moorfields patients (involvement or data), staff or facilitates, or if you are unsure, get in touch with Mohammed or Kabir for more information.
• If you have a project idea and are looking for a funding opportunity, please get in touch