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IRA GRANTS

IRA will (subject to availability) award research grants each year in following categories,

Trainee

1. Five for DM/DNB/Fellowship residents (up to Rs 2 Lac each)

2. Two for MD residents (up to Rs 1 Lac each)

3. Two MBBS student’s summer projects (up to Rs 50,000 each)

  • Mentor/guide must be a Life Member of the IRA.
  • Proposals for categories 1, 2, 3 shall be capped at two submissions per year from a single principal investigator/mentor/guide

Non-trainee IRA members

Five projects - (up to 10 lakhs per project)

  • Project shall be of at least two years duration.
  • The research should pertain to issues relevant to India. In such proposals, funding for multicentric studies shall be given priority.
  • Funding shall be provided for consumables as well as for the manpower.

A principal investigator/ single mentor/guide may have a maximum of two ongoing projects at the same time.

In a single funding cycle, only one project can be funded for a single principal investigator/ single mentor/guide


FUNDING CYCLES

The numbers of actual research grants and quantum available would be advised by the secretary of the IRA to the committee. The funding shall be evaluated in the following three cycles,

January to April

  • Proposal received by 15th March shall be considered
  • Proposals shall be reviewed and a decision communicated to applicant by 30th April.

May to August

  • Proposal received by 15th July shall be considered
  • Proposals shall be reviewed and a decision communicated to applicant by 31st August.

September to December

  • Proposal received by 15th November shall be considered
  • Proposals shall be reviewed and a decision communicated to applicant by 31st December.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

  • Research proposals shall be submitted in the prescribed format (vide infra) in PDF format via the IRA research portal - https://www.indianrheumatology.org/grants.
  • The format for the research proposal (please see enclosed) has been adapted from the format for submission of research proposals to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
  • A call for proposals shall be sent out every January, May and September 1st week by the IRA via email to all members and through the IRA newsletter along with the prescribed format for research proposal.
  • Proposals which are not in the required format will be rejected without assignment of any reasons.
  • The principal investigator (or guide, in case of student projects) should submit a mandatory declaration (please see enclosed) that this project is not under consideration for funding by any other funding agency currently. The applications should be forwarded by the head of the department of the applicant in the prescribed format. The grantees should credit IRA for the funding, submit an abstract related to the project to IRACON, as well as keep in consideration the Indian Journal of Rheumatology for the full manuscript.

EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS

  • Proposals shall be evaluated by the members of the research committee. If the chair of research committee deems it so, then external review might be sought for any particular proposal.
  • As the submission is allowed round the year, appraisal of them would also take round the year as they come so as not to overburden the members.
  • Appraisal

1. Screening criterion: Is the proposal ethical from viewpoint of human/ animal research (as applicable) – note – studies that fail to meet this criterion are automatically rejected.

2. Proposals shall be scored between 1 to 10 in each of the following domains. Each of these five points are scored between 10 (excellent) and 0 (poor).In addition, descriptive comments are provided by the reviewers.

  • a. Background adequately justified?
  • b. Aims and objectives clearly defined? There should not be more than three primary objectives and not more than five secondary objectives for a particular study.
  • c. Does the research work have a potential to eventually (need not directly) translate into clinical care?
  • d. Does the research work have novelty? Research work simply replicating something done elsewhere (even if it has not been done in India – exception: epidemiological studies) shall score low on this point.
  • e. Overall impression of the proposal.

3. The chair of the Research appraisal committee shall review the comments received and make a final decision based on several additional factors such as overall scope and relevance for the IRA and taking also into account member’s comments and scoring.

4. The decision of research appraisal committee would be final and binding.


FUNDING

a. 70% of grant would be released upfront on submission of letter of IEC clearance.

b. The second installment of 20% shall be provided on receiving a suitable progress report (at least after one year, can be anytime after 6 months of receiving the funding)

c. The final installment of 10% shall be released after the said work has been published in a peer-reviewed journal that is indexed either in Scopus, Medline, Pubmed Central or Web of Science. If the said journal is not indexed on one of these databases, then this final installment shall not be provided.

  • It is desirable that study funded by the IRA should be submitted to its official organ, the Indian Journal of Rheumatology.
  • It is mandatory that abstracts of IRA funded research should be submitted to the IRA’s annual conference.
  • It is mandatory that IRA should be formally acknowledged for the funding provided.
  • Prior to recommending a proposal for funding, the committee would ascertain from the investigator that the approval of the project (title should be identical) by their relevant research ethics committee has been obtained.

For Format - Download from - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iSw4m15mTm8yEH7aavAHhj0o4ltFGUHM/view?usp=sharing

For Mandatory Declaration form - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10RhwDm87yvNhSTYTodF23u9KHxW1sN-x/view?usp=sharing






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