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SUMMARY:[ Botnar Research Center for Child Health | Fast Track Call for Ac
 ute Global Health Challenges – COVID19 ]
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200408
DTSTAMP:20260427T204154Z
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:The mandate of the Botnar Research Center for Child Health (BR
 CCH) is to drive the development of innovative and step-changing health so
 lutions for those who are most in need.\n\nWith the support of Fondation B
 otnar\, the BRCCH is launching a Fast-Track Call to address several critic
 al areas related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Call’s objective 
 is to both enable research that will help mitigate medical and public heal
 th challenges in the short-term\, and to also contribute solutions that wi
 ll lead to better preparedness and reduced global disease burden in the lo
 ng-term.\n\nThe BRCCH seeks step-changing projects that can deliver immedi
 ate impact in the following research areas:\n\n	Diagnostics for COVID-19\n
 	Human Immune Response to COVID-19\n	Medical Interventions and Disease Man
 agement for COVID-19\n\n\nWho can apply: \n\n\n	Applicants must be tenured
 \, tenure-track or non-tenure researchers from a BRCCH partner institution
  (University of Basel\, ETH Zurich\, University Children’s Hospital Base
 l and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute).\n	Collaborators can be 
 from other research organisations\, including Swiss and international inst
 itutions\, hospitals and/or industry/start-up partners. Collaborators are 
 expected to provide defined scientific contributions and to enable the con
 sortium to deliver immediate impact.\n\n\nFunding and duration:\n\n\n	CHF 
 0.5M to 2.5M for 30 months.\n	Does NOT cover: Salaries of Collaborators an
 d of Collaborators’ personnel\, infrastructure and overheads.\n\n\nTimel
 ine of the call:\n\n\n	Deadline: 8 April 2020 at 11:00 CET\n	Contact resea
 rch@epfl.ch at least 7 days prior to the call deadline to obtain the Lette
 r of Institutional Support.\n	Decision: late April 2020\n	Earliest start o
 f the project: 1 May 2020\n\n\nFor further information\, please have a loo
 k at the call webpage\, email contact@brc.ch or chat with BRCCH scientific
  officers on March 31 or April 3rd by signing up here.\n 
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