US Ireland R&D Partnership Awards Portfolio

The US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership is a unique initiative involving funding agencies across three jurisdictions: United States of America (USA), Republic of Ireland (RoI) & Northern Ireland (NI), in which health is one of the priority thematic areas.  As part of the Partnership Programme, the governments and relevant research funding agencies within the Partnership contribute to the research costs of researchers based in their jurisdictions.

Applications for funding are made through a highly competitive grant process operated by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). A ‘single-proposal, single-review’ mechanism is facilitated by NIH who will accept submissions from tri-jurisdictional (USA, NI and ROI) teams to a number of their existing R01 funding programmes. All proposals submitted under the auspices of the Partnership must have significant research involvement from researchers in all three jurisdictions, and demonstrate added value of the tri-partite work.

The UK Medical Research Council works in partnership with HSC R&D Division to support this programme, and has, to date, contributed funding to the Northern Ireland costs.  This arrangement continues on a case-by-case basis.

These prestigious awards can bring significant longer-term benefits in terms of securing funding for follow-on research and indeed in building a reputation for excellence.

Awards made under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme:

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RI - Research Ireland (formally SFI)

SFI – Science Foundation Ireland (RoI)

HRB – Health Research Board (RoI)

MRC – UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council (UK)

NIH – National Institutes of Health (US)