The European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD) opens its call for applications 2014 for European Research Programme in Microvascular Complications of Diabetes with the financial support of Novartis Pharma AG to encourage new products aimed at advancing current knowledge in this domain.

Objective: The Programme is intended to stimulate and accelerate European basic and clinical research focusing on microvascular complications of diabetes.

Requirements:

- Applications  for hypothesis driven basic and clinical intervention projects will be accepted. Projects involving clinical trials will not be accepted for this call.

- Applications are invited from single non-profit institutions or groups of such institutions from Europe and associated countries. The principal investigator and any co-investigators must be normally employed at a non-profit institution and the study must be performed at their place of work.

Review criteria:

- Significance: Does the study address an important problem in keeping with the goals and focus areas of this Programme? If the aims of the application are achieved, how will scientific knowledge be advanced? What will be the effect of the proposed studies on the concepts or methods that drive this field?

- Approach: Are the conceptual framework, design, methods and analyses adequately developed, well integrated, and appropriate to the aims of the project? Are they supported by preliminary data? Does the applicant acknowledge potential problem areas and consider alternative tactics?

- Innovation: Does the project employ novel concepts, approaches or methods? Are the aims original and innovative? Does the project challenge existing paradigms or develop new methodologies or technologies?

- Investigator: Is the investigator appropriately trained and well suited to carry out this work? Is the work proposed appropriate to the experience level of the principal investigator and other researchers, if any?

- Environment: Does the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Do the proposed studies take advantage of unique features of the scientific environment or employ useful collaborative arrangements? Is there evidence of institutional support?

- Budget: Is the requested budget appropriate for the proposed study?

Amount: up to 100.000 € in total

Deadlines:

- Internal (VHIR) deadline: 07 July 2014

- Official deadline: 15 July 2014 (12h CET)

- Anticipated award: October 2014

More information: HERE