- Project Description:
Taipei Medical University calls for proposals for innovative translational medicine research project with the following aims:
- To encourage cross-domain original translational medicine research in the university in order to integrate various fields such as clinical medicine, basic science, epidemiology, big data, and artificial intelligence.
- To utilize university research facilities to develop a competitive and specialized research team within the university and to enhance academic and clinical research capacity.
- Project Focus
The project team is to research unsatisfied medical problems to be solved or unresolved or precision health research, focusing on cancer translation, neuroscience, thoracic medicine, artificial intelligence in medicine and other innovative research areas (including cell therapy and regenerative medicine, biomedical devices, cardiology, urinary kidneys, immune monitoring and other areas).
- Research Project Type and Requirements:
- Integrated project:
- New project
- The project is an integrated project. Its proposal can contain no more than five subprojects. Each integrated project is approved only when at least 3 subprojects for this integrated project are approved.
- To enhance young researchers’ academic capabilities, for each integrated project, at least one researcher who is 45 years old or younger (with the deadline of project application as a criterion) must serve as the principal investigator of a subproject.
- In addition to project content, the proposal must (1)emphasize the value of translational medicine, (2) establish a competitive cohort, (3) involve young researchers (including physicians), (4) demonstrate international collaboration and the joint publishing of papers (an application for a subsidy can be filed), and (5) propose the use of the university’s core research facilities and platforms.
- Value-added Project
- The application for this project is limited to the team execution plan of the MOST. Chief PI submit the application.
- The review focused on the expansion and expected results of the MOST PPG content. Under the existing integrated plan, increase the research the research funding. This funding will be considered with the subsidized funds of the “Taipei Medical University Integrated Research Project Grant”.
- Continuation project
The PI who execute 2020 project, submit a second-year continuous project during the annual assessment. After reviewing and approval, the PI will get second-year funding.
- Rules
- Qualifications of applicants: Full-time teacher or full-time assistant researcher (or above) at the university.
- The integrated research project should demonstrate originality, significance, integration, collaboration, and complementarity between subprojects. The principal investigator must be responsible for planning a team research project, coordination, and the research progress and results. In addition, the principal investigator must simultaneously be responsible for a subproject.
- A crucial goal of the project is to form an international research team with foreign researchers and jointly publish papers with such researchers.
- Subsidies for the project: A review is conducted every year to determine whether subsidies for the following year are approved.
- Funding items:
- Cancer Translation field is limited to business expenses (experimental consumables, temporary wages, etc.).
- Personnel fees (full-time, concurrent research assistants) and business expenses (experimental consumables, temporary wages, etc.) can be included in neuroscience, thoracic medicine, artificial intelligence in medicine, and other fields.
- Individual Project (Immune Monitoring Project, Artificial intelligence in medicine and others):
- Immune Monitoring Project
According to the university’s policy, precision health-related research is supported. Translational medicine research projects conducted by physicians using biomarkers such as immune phenotype and immune polymorphism to examine blood or tissue samples for immune monitoring are subsidized
- Rules
- Qualifications of applicants: Those who have a joint appointment of full-time teacher and full-time attending physician can apply.
- Funding items:
- business expenses (experimental consumables, temporary wages, etc.).
- Immune monitoring core lab service fee at least 200 thousand dollars.
- Artificial intelligence in medicine
- New project
- Continuation project
- Qualifications of applicants: Full-time teacher or full-time assistant researcher (or above) at the university.
- Funding items: Personnel fees (full-time, concurrent research assistants) and business expenses (experimental consumables, temporary wages, etc.) can be included.
- Other fields: Hosts who cannot be proposed in an integrated project may propose an individual project, but the TMU approve integrated projects for priority.
- New project
- Continuation project
- Qualifications of applicants: Full-time teacher or full-time assistant researcher (or above) at the university.
- Funding items: Personnel fees (full-time, concurrent research assistants) and business expenses (experimental consumables, temporary wages, etc.) can be included.
- Application Method and Application Deadline:
- Proposal: The deadline for submitting a proposal is 12 p.m. on 11th Dec., 2020. The proposal must be in the specified format.
After the proposal is approved, the principal investigator will be informed via an oral report. The principal investigator must submit an electronic file of the oral report by the specified date.
- A proposal and project plan can be written in Chinese or English and must be submitted to the project organizer by the specified deadline.
- Project Report and Performance Evaluation
- Mid-term report: A mid-term report meeting is held in July-August every year.
- Annual evaluation report: Written reports are reviewed and a briefing meeting is held at the end of the year. In a report, the following content should be included: (1) project progress for the current year, preliminary research results, and concrete performance (including qualitative and quantitative results); and (2) the project implementation focuses for the following year and expected results and performance. The report must be edited in PDF and 1 copy of the PDF file must be printed and submitted to the project organizer.
- Submission of an overall results report: An overall results report must be submitted after the implementation period according to the regulations and an application for government subsidies is encouraged.
- The project organizer: Ms. Shu-Ming Huang at the Office of Research and Development. Tel: 02-27361661 ext. 7113. Email: shu7112360@tmu.edu.tw
- Project Schedule(for reference)
| Content | Date | Description |
| Call for projects | 2020/11/17~2020/12/11 | Submitting a proposal and presenting a briefing report |
| Reviewing an oral report | 2020/12~2021/1 | 1. The principal investigator presents an oral report. 2. The review committee recommends a project after conducting a review. |
| Project approval | 2021/2 | Proposing a complete project plan according to the opinions of the members of the review committee. |
| Project implementation | 2020/2 | During the project implementation period, related matters are handled according to regulations for the called-for project for the Higher Education Sprout Project. |
Notes
One applicant can only apply for the approval of one project (integrated project and individual project(s) are considered one project). This requirement is inapplicable to coprincipal investigator(s).
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