Overview
The Major Research Program is aimed to combine major basic research with major need of China and supports researches on basic properties of regional immunity in tissues and organs (such as liver, intestine, lungs, etc.), network regulation mechanism of regional immune characteristics in tissues and organs and mechanism of regional immune characteristics of tissues and organs in the pathogenesis and development of diseases.
How to Apply
The applicant should log in to ISIS system and fill in the application form online. The funding category should be selected as “Major Research Program”; the subcategory should be selected as “development project” or “key supporting project”; the annotation should be “Regional Immune Characteristics and Diseases of Tissues and Organs”.
Eligibility
1. The applicant should have experience of undertaking fundamental research topic or other experience on fundamental research.
2. The applicant should have high professional technical positions(titles).
On-station postdoctoral research fellows, graduate students, unemployed personnel or personnel whose institution is not host institution are not eligible for the project.
Award Information
Project Duration: 3 years for Development Project, from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020; 4 years for Key Supporting Project, from January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2021.
Award Size: 2,000,000(2 million) Yuan for each key supporting project and 600,000(600 thousand) Yuan for each development project.
Proposal Submission
The proposal should be submitted online during August 21, 2017-August 25, 2017, 16:00. And the application form should be printed and sealed by host institution and be sent to Material Reception Office of NSFC, 83 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District (Room 101 in Administration Building) with official letter issued by host institution and a list for applied projects before September 1,2017, 16:00.
The Host Institution
There shall be no more than 2 cooperative research institutions for the development projects and key supporting projects.
Agency Contact
Office 4 in Department of Health Sciences, NSFC
Phone: 010-62326924