The NIHR/MRC Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme invites research proposals to evaluate innovative and novel healthcare treatments and tests delivered through industry-academia-NHS collaborations, which address unmet need in the following priority area:
•  Research into diseases of the skin.

There are two deadlines for this topic, 1pm on 3 June 2013 and 1 October 2013.

The National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI) is a partnership between the Department of Health, National Cancer Action Team and Cancer Research UK. It aims to promote earlier diagnosis of cancer, increasing access to optimal treatment and thereby improving survival rates and reducing cancer mortality. NAEDI Research Call 3 will accept high quality, researcher driven project grant applications on any topic within the field of early cancer diagnosis including the following key questions where the evidence is currently lacking:
•  Investigating reasons for late presentation (to primary care or A&E) and low uptake of screening.
•  Developing effective interventions to prompt change, at both individual and systemic levels, to reduce late presentation and low uptake of screening.
•  Investigating reasons for delays occurring within primary care and onward referral.

The deadline for full project grant applications is 13 September 2013.

The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) programme invites outline research proposals in smoking prevention:

•  Preventing smokeless tobacco use in UK communities

The deadline for submissions is 1pm on 6 August 2013.

•  Smoking prevention in further education
•  New media interventions to prevent the uptake of smoking among children and young people

The deadline for submissions is 1pm on 3 September 2013.

The Department of Health has launched a new, open, two-stage competition to designate Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) in England.

The role of the newly designated AHSCs will be to increase strategic alignment of NHS providers and their university partner, specifically in world-class research, health education and patient care, in order to improve health and healthcare delivery, including through increased translation of discoveries from basic science into benefits for patients.  AHSCs will be able to realise their potential as drivers of economic growth through research partnerships with commercial life science organisations.  Designation will be for five years from 1 April 2014. 

The closing date for submission of the Pre-qualifying Questionnaire by NHS provider/ university partnerships in England that are interested in being considered for AHSC designation is 31 May 2013 at 1.00pm.

The NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) is managing the call and designation process on behalf of the Department of Health. 

The NIHR i4i Challenge Awards seeks to identify those medical technologies with the greatest potential clinical benefit, along with how they might be integrated into clinical decision and treatment pathways and be implemented on a large scale. Research proposals are invited from NHS organisations or other providers of NHS services in England, in cooperation with commercial and Higher Education Institution (HEI) partners as appropriate, to develope non-pharmaceutical, implantable technologies for sight or hearing loss. 

The deadline for submitting outline proposals is 29 May 2013, 1pm.

The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme invites research proposals to evaluate innovative and novel healthcare treatments and tests delivered through industry-academia-NHS collaborations, which address priority areas of unmet need in the following areas:
• Alcohol and substance misuse in younger people (to exclude nicotine)
• Radionuclide imaging in non-malignant disease

The closing date for submissions is 3 June 2013, 1pm.

The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme invites research proposals in the following area:

• Multiparametric MRI in planning epilepsy surgery.
 
The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 29 August 2013 by 1pm.

The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme invites research proposals on the following areas:

•  Immunisation of Children and Young People Looked After By the State
•  Feasibility of psychosocial interventions for preventing blood borne virus infection in people who inject drugs
•  Peer support for breastfeeding maintenance
•  A prognostic tool to aid clinical management decisions in acute ankle sprain
•  Prognostic models for people with advanced cancer
•  Suspected acute pulmonary embolism in pregnancy
•  Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation devices for assisted cough in neuromuscular disease
•  Early pulmonary rehabilitation after an exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
•  Interventions to enhance engagement in exercise referral schemes
•  Non-neuroleptic mood stabilising medication for challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability

The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 29 August 2013 by 1pm.

The MRC/NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme invites research proposals to evaluate clinical efficacy of interventions, add significantly to our understanding of biological or behavioural mechanisms and processes, explore new scientific or clinical principles, and include the development or testing of new methodologies.

The closing date for outline applications is 10 July 2013, 1pm.

The NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research programme invites research proposals to develop individual programmes. Research funded through a Programme Grant typically consists of an interrelated group of high quality projects focused on a coherent theme and hence require multidisciplinary approaches, including clinical, health economics, statistics, qualitative and behavioural sciences, to ensure that research objectives can be met. Individual awards are for a maximum of £2 million over a period of three to five years.

The programme is participating in the NIHR Primary Care Interventions research call and will therefore welcome research proposals in this area.

The closing date for research proposals is 22 May 2013, 13:00.

The NIHR invites research proposals in Primary Care Interventions or services delivered in primary care settings. This call is a key component of the NIHR response to recognition of the need for further research-based evidence related to the provision of primary care services in the NHS.
Research proposals must be within the remit of one of the seven NIHR participating programmes:

• Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME)
• Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR)
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
• Invention for Innovation (i4i)
• Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR)
• Public Health Research (PHR)
• Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)
• Fellowships Programme (Round 7 will open in October 2013)

The closing date for submitting proposals is 22 May 2013, for the majority of participating programmes. 

The Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme, commissioned  work stream invites research proposals in the following area:

•  Self-care: a focus on the effectiveness of re-ablement interventions.
The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2013

The NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme invites outline proposals under the researcher-led funding stream. This funding opportunity aims to fund research that will produce rigorous and relevant evidence on the quality, access and organisation of health services, and improve the quality, effectiveness and accessibility of the NHS. This includes both primary research and evidence syntheses, depending on the existing research and the most appropriate way of responding to important knowledge gaps.

The closing date for outline applications is 22 May 2013, by 1pm.