1. Dr Liesl Osman Research Development Advisor Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine University of Oxford September 2009 Web tools for finding funding in medical research

2. Search engines Researchresearch.com: the online research funding opportunities information service to which the University subscribes. http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rso/findfunding/ RDInfo: free search engine sponsored by the UK National Institute of Health Research supporting researchers in health and social care. http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/

3. Using Researchresearch.com to search for funding for DPhil training for a UK clinician  Go to home page of researchresearch.com  Select funding tab, top left corner  Then select funding search tab, top left corner next page and enter search criteria

4. Using Researchresearch.com to search for funding for DPhil training for a UK clinician  Set DISCIPLINE →”is exact or narrower” → select Rodman Index → Biomedical sciences  Set → AND NOT→ full text →contains → NIH  Or SET → AND → SPONSOR COUNTRY →UK  Set → AWARD TYPE → predoctoral fellowship, predoctoral training fellowship  How many calls?? Do they include calls identified on the following slide?

5. DPhil for Clinician  MRC Clinical Research Training fellowship http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Fellowships/Clinicalresearchtrai ning/index.htm#P20_1174 http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Fellowships/Clinicalresearchtrai ning/index.htm#P20_1174  Wellcome Trust Joint Basic and Clinical PhD Programmes http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/PhD-programmes-and- studentships/WTD037350.htmhttp://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Grants/PhD-programmes-and- studentships/WTD037350.htm Oxford Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships for Clinicians in Basic Sciences http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/clinical_fellowships/wellcomefellowships http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/clinical_fellowships/wellcomefellowships  NIHR Fellowship scheme http://www.nccrcd.nhs.uk/nihrfellow/  Boehringer Ingelheim PhD fellowships http://www.bifonds.de/cgi-bin/show.pl/phd_scholarships/phd_scholarships.html

6. Finding small grant funding

7. SMALL GRANTS  Set DISCIPLINE →”is exact or narrower” → select Rodman Index → Biomedical sciences  Set → AND NOT→ full text →contains → NIH  Or SET → AND → SPONSOR COUNTRY →UK  Set → AWARD TYPE → directed grants  How many calls? How would you filter?

8. Other web tools for finding funding RD Info http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/Default.asp NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) UK This can be used 1. for searches for UK and international funding 2. As the basis for an RSS feed of calls put on the web by funders

9. RDInfo – All biomed funders without international sources – allows quick skim read

10. RD Info search using criteria to focus search

11. Adding an RSS feed link

12. What an RSS Feed looks like on your screen

13. To set up any RSS feed you need to first down load a Feed Reader

14. Download Feedreader  http://www.feedreader.com/ http://www.feedreader.com/

15. Click on the RSS icon on the page you want a feed from.

16. Copy the http address of the feed

17. Paste it into the “new feed” box brought up from the Feedreader menu.

18. Finally ………………… you will have a feed on your screen giving daily links to new funding opportunities