BIRAX: UK-Israel collaboration - Ageing - Preliminary Proposals

BIRAX Ageing will fund ground breaking projects that will focus on diverse aspects of ageing-related health. Proposals must address at least one of these themes:

1. The effect of ageing on human health: preventive, disease modifying and regenerative medicine approaches to medical conditions and the ageing process. Certain priority to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions, arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders, age-related frailty and other geriatric syndromes, age-related frailty and other geriatric syndromes, age-related multimoribidity.
2. Ageing and Technology: Precision medicine and big data in ageing research: innovative biomarkers, algorithms, computational and measurement techniques. Priority to collaboration between basic and clinical research and big data and to facilitating the translation of basic research to clinical practice.

Funding: £400K / 3 years.

https://www.britishcouncil.org.il/en/Birax-Ageing-launch