Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Funding to enable researchers to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative via either a purely academic route or an academic with an industrial partner.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is providing funding to enable applicants to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics (FGx) Initiative.

The projects should build and strengthen collaborations across the Initiative and the UK through feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.

Areas of potential interest include (but are not limited to):

• Generation of novel functional genomic annotations in disease-relevant cell types.
• Development of novel methods, functional perturbation of disease systems.
• Development of models for functional genomics, data science and computational approaches for functional genomics.

Technology priming projects that support the initiative, functional genomics screening lab or a specific research cluster are welcome. Projects that offer to bring in specific knowledge or contributions to the initiative are encouraged.

Projects are expected to be between three and 12 months in duration.