Call for Proposals: Interdisciplinary Research Projects on Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Institut Pasteur’s Outbreak Investigation Task Force (OITF) is launching a call for collaborative, transversal and interdisciplinary projects aimed at enhancing understanding of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).

Emerging infectious diseases continue to pose a major threat to public health, as exemplified by the H1N1pdm09 influenza pandemic in 2009, the recent Ebola outbreaks in West and Central Africa, or the Zika epidemic in the Americas. A multidisciplinary approach to studying host, pathogen, and environmental factors contributing to infectious disease emergence is critical to improving outbreak detection, control, and prevention.

The aim of this call is to provide small grants to investigators willing to gather preliminary data on innovative approaches in the area of host-vector-pathogen interactions, microbial detection and characterization, pathogen transmission and epidemic dynamics, and social and human practices driving global pathogenic threats – all core activities of the wider INCEPTION project.

Funded through the INCEPTION program and the ‘Institut Convergence des Investissements d’Avenir,’ selected proposals will receive funding of €10,000 for 12 months from the date of the award.

Submission deadline: October 21, 2019 17pm CET

Submission procedure