10th Year Anniversary Grant Awards Competition
10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS COMPETITION
Study your patients: The science of human organ transplantation
For the 10th Year Anniversary of the Roche Organ Transplantation Research Foundation (ROTRF), the Board of Trustees has decided to specifically promote clinical research in solid organ transplantation. Projects submitted to the current ROTRF grant award competition* (deadline 1 October 2008) must be clinical or use human transplant material for laboratory examinations.
Through this special 10th Year Anniversary Clinical Grant Competition the Trustees wish to promote research in clinical transplantation and open new research frontiers, while supporting areas in clinical research often overlooked or understudied. Additionally, the ROTRF wishes to emphasise the importance of collaborative work between clinicians and research investigators in clinical transplantation.
In line with the new 5-Year Plan of the ROTRF to promote clinical research and new emerging technologies in transplantation, for the 10th Year Anniversary Clinical Grant Competition the Trustees encourage applications in areas such as antibody-mediated rejection and antibody formation, pathology of the graft during rejection events, histocompatibility, infectious agents and disease phenotypes in transplant patients. The Trustees will also consider studies investigating transplant populations, ethics, organ preservation and allocation, and health care delivery.
We hope that clinical investigators will take this opportunity to pursue clinical research and apply to the ROTRF for funding by 1 October 2008.
* For the joint ROTRF/JDRF Research Grant Award competition both clinical and conventional applications will still be accepted
Please be aware that as a small charitable organisation, ROTRF cannot fund intervention studies (e.g. clinical trials of a drug) because of liability issues; however the ROTRF Trustees will consider for funding scientific studies associated with a completely separated clinical trial.
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