ACCEPT-Africa Targeted Research Awards for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness
Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University / ACCEPT-Africa
Opportunity TypeGrant
Profession / CadreResearchers / Biomedical and Health Sciences
Employment TypeResearch Award (12 months)
LocationMulago, Kampala, Uganda
Deadline16 Oct 202611 days left
Salary / AllowanceUp to US$15,000 per project
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Opportunity Description
ACCEPT-Africa (African Consortium for Clinical Evidence, Pharmacology and Translational Research), under the Africa Pandemic Sciences Collaborative (EPSILON-1) and led by the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, invites applications from individual researchers for Targeted Research Awards addressing priority scientific and operational gaps relevant to medical countermeasure development and epidemic clinical research.
The awards provide catalytic funding for focused, high-impact and implementation-oriented research projects that can generate preliminary evidence, address critical knowledge or methodological gaps, strengthen existing research platforms, and contribute to the development and evaluation of medical countermeasures for priority pathogens.
Three strategic objectives are: advance clinical development of medical countermeasures targeting priority pathogens; strengthen epidemic-pandemic research ecosystems; and build sustainable capacity for early-phase clinical trials targeting priority pathogens.
Priority research areas:
1. Pharmacokinetics of drugs used for diseases of outbreak potential.
2. Biomarkers and diagnostics for drug development, including viral, immunological or other markers to assess treatment response or severity of highly infectious diseases of outbreak potential.
3. Social and Behavioral Research on Epidemic Clinical Trials.
Three competitive research awards are available, subject to satisfactory scientific review and availability of funds. Each successful project may receive up to US$15,000 and must be implemented within 12 months.
Requirements
Applicants must:
• Be affiliated with a recognized university, research institution, healthcare institution, public health agency or other eligible scientific institution.
• Demonstrate relevant expertise or a strong research track record/potential in the selected priority area.
• Demonstrate access to, or a credible pathway for accessing, the facilities, platforms, samples, populations, datasets or other resources necessary for the proposed research.
• Demonstrate ability to complete the proposed project within 12 months.
• Identify an institutional mechanism capable of receiving and administering the research award.
• Comply with applicable institutional, national and ACCEPT-Africa scientific, ethical, regulatory, biosafety, data and research governance requirements.
• Be willing to collaborate with ACCEPT-Africa investigators and relevant national, regional and institutional partners.
• Researchers and investigators seeking to establish independent research projects are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Collaborative proposals are encouraged, but the application must identify one individual researcher as the Principal Applicant and award lead.
Required Documents
1. CV and personal statement (use the NIH template).
2. Two letters of recommendation: ACCEPT-Africa site PI and one proposed mentor.
3. Proposal using the provided template.
4. Budget (maximum US$15,000).
Benefits / What's on Offer
Maximum award: up to US$15,000 per successful project.
Eligible costs may include research personnel support, laboratory reagents and consumables, sample processing and analysis, data collection, participant-related research costs, field activities, data management and analysis, stakeholder/community engagement directly related to the research, and dissemination of findings.
Major capital equipment and costs not directly attributable to delivery of the proposed research should generally not constitute a substantial proportion of the requested budget.
Key Dates / Timeline
Call opens: September 2026.
Application deadline: 16 October 2026.
Scientific and technical review: November 2026.
Notification of successful applicants: Late November 2026.
Anticipated project commencement: December 2026.
Last updated: 05 Oct 2026
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