The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have issued a joint call for research projects into disease clustering in multimorbidity.
Awards of up to £600,000 are available for up to 36 months.
Funding is available for research that will identify or explore common disease clusters, their distributions in diverse groups, multimorbidity trajectories and/or the underpinning mechanisms across the life course.
Applications are encouraged from cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional teams.
The scope of the call includes:
- disease clustering in defined population/patient groups
- addressing prevalence and changes in multimorbidity during the life course (such as in childhood, during pregnancy or postpartum period)
- social patterning and health inequalities associated with multimorbidity
- shared mechanistic pathways in common co-morbidities
- multimorbidity biomarkers, early predictors and genetic associations
- innovative methodological approaches, tools and technologies for capturing and measuring patients' complexities in the context of multimorbidity
- enriching data for established population and clinical cohorts.
The closing date for applications is Tuesday 9 October.
Further details are on the MRC website.
