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Leprosy Research Initiative - Call for proposals 2019

The Lep­rosy Research Ini­tia­tive (LRI) invites proposals for funding commencing in 2019. Deadline for submitting applications is February 28, 2018. LRI funds research with a focus on leprosy - including research applications combining leprosy with other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) or other diseases that share cross-cutting issues with leprosy. The duration of proposals should not exceed four years. There is no funding ceiling for the current call.

By way of guidance: projects LRI has funded in the past years had an average annual amount of € 30,000 (ranging from € 10,000 to € 75,000) – although in exceptional cases higher annual budgets have been accepted. 

 

The research priorities are:

  • Early detection: Promote and enable early detection of leprosy;
  • Nerve function impairment and reactions: Promote prevention, early detection and effective treatment of nerve function impairment (NFI) and reactions;
  • Inclusion: Promote inclusion of persons affected by leprosy in society;
  • Prevention of diability: Improve the coverage of prevention of disability activities and their integration in national programmes and integrated wound and limb care programmes;
  • Interrupt transmission: Test methods and tools to interrupt the transmission and incidence of leprosy, including increasing the coverage of effective contact management and chemoprophylaxis.

The Lep­rosy Research Ini­tia­tive is a com­bined ven­ture of the Nether­lands Lep­rosy Relief (NLR, Leprastichting), Amer­i­can Lep­rosy Mis­sions (ALM), Ger­man Lep­rosy and Tuber­cu­lo­sis Relief Asso­ci­a­tion (GLRA), effect:hope (The Lep­rosy Mis­sion Canada) and The Leprosy Mission International (TLMI). Guided by an allied pol­icy with clearly defined research pri­or­i­ties, the partners have estab­lished a joint fund to sup­port lep­rosy research and a mech­a­nism to access exter­nal fund­ing. The Lep­rosy Mis­sion Ire­land (TLM Ire­land) is sup­port­ing the run­ning cost of the LRI. The Austrian Leprosy Relief Association (ALRA) funds a research grant. 

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