What the CAR is expected to do?

• Conducting Decisive Research that helps in solving an important healthcare problem by a research team. It can have single or multiple linked research projects with clear deliverables.
• It encourages in-depth research, to generate new knowledge and solutions for health problems in multiple aspects of causation, progression, management and prevention. The Research Team should have demonstrated impact of their previous research.

Priority Diseases and Conditions

• Communicable Diseases
  • One Health
  • AMR
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vector Borne diseases
  • Respiratory infections
  • Neurological infections
  • Gastro-Intestinal and Hepatic infections
  • HIV/AIDS & other STIs
• Non-Communicable Diseases
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Chronic Respiratory diseases
  • Neurological conditions
  • Mental Health
  • Blood disorders including hemoglobinopathies
• Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition
  • Anaemia & micronutrient deficiencies
  • Childhood malnutrition
  • Early childhood development (particularly for small and vulnerable newborns)
  • Neonatal Mortality, preterm-LBW, asphyxia, neonatal sepsis
  • Genetic disorders/ Rare diseases/ congenital anomalies
  • PCOS, Endometriosis
  • Antenatal, intra-natal and postnatal care
  • Pre-conception care, Adolescent Health
• Over-arching:
  • Medical Counter measures development (e.g Vaccines, Diagnostics, Therapeutics) against infections with outbreak potential
  • Mitigating Health impacts of Climate Change
  • Oral Health
  • Ageing
  • Disability

Funding Information

• The budget should be between INR 8 crores to less than INR 15 crores per CAR.

Duration

• Duration of project will be for a maximum period of five years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Research teams with outstanding achievements, recognition and proven excellence in the area and having the necessary infrastructure to carry out further work are encouraged to apply.
• The institute and principal investigator will be supported to establish CAR with an aim that the facility so created would continue to function even after this funding gets over. CAR should develop trained health research personnel.
• After completion of the project, the host institute would be expected to take over activities of the center as permanent activity.
• ICMR scientists/institutes are not eligible to apply under this call. ICMR scientists may be named as coinvestigators in these projects, but no funds will be given for ICMR institutions or scientists in these cases.

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