New scheme supports collaborations uniting genomics with bioethics, the social sciences and humanities
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Wellcome, one of the world’s largest independent charitable foundations funding health-related research, is awarding up to £500,000 per project for transdisciplinary research at the intersection of genomics, the humanities, social sciences and bioethics.
The awards aim to give research teams resources to build new agendas that embed diverse perspectives into genomic science from the earliest stages of ideation and design.
To meet the scheme’s requirements, proposals must bring together coapplicants from multiple disciplines, integrating expertise from genomics-related life sciences with contributions from the humanities, social sciences, and wider societal partners. Lead applicants may be researchers based at an organisation anywhere in the world except mainland China.
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