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Writing Winning Proposals for RGC’s CERG Exercise Biology and Medicine Panel

Writing Winning Proposals for RGC’s CERG Exercise Biology and Medicine Panel. Professor Paul Tam Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Medicine. No. of funded CERG projects obtained by the institutions under the Biology and Medicine Panel from 1998-99 to 2002-03. 70. 62. 60. 53. 53. 52.

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Writing Winning Proposals for RGC’s CERG Exercise Biology and Medicine Panel

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  1. Writing Winning Proposals for RGC’s CERG ExerciseBiology and Medicine Panel Professor Paul Tam Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Medicine

  2. No. of funded CERG projects obtained by the institutions under the Biology and Medicine Panel from 1998-99 to 2002-03 70 62 60 53 53 52 51 50 48 50 45 42 40 40 No. of funded projects 30 24 22 21 19 18 20 13 13 13 9 10 7 0 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 Year HKU CUHK HKUST Other Universities

  3. Amount of CERG obtained by the institutions under the Biology and Medicine Panel from 1998-99 to 2002-03 60 56.57 50.76 50 47.44 45.71 41.77 40.52 38.65 40 32.31 31.54 Amount of grants (HK$M) 28.46 30 25.15 27.22 18.17 20 17.18 17.13 13.17 11.22 9.9 10 5.4 5.98 0 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 Year HKU CUHK HKUST Other Universities

  4. Measures to improve institutional performance in CERG exercises

  5. Principles • providing incentives to encourage high-quality CERG applications • reward excellent performance • reinforce team work in research

  6. New Measures • Longer lead-time for proposal development • Funding for ‘friendly’ external reviews • Merit award for successful CERG projects • Incentive award for ‘fundable but not funded’ projects • Top-up funding for successful ‘Individual Research Grants’ • Staff mentoring

  7. New Measures in detail • Longer lead-time: proposal preparation advanced to November of the preceding year • External reviews: funding for Faculties to invite external reviewers for proposal critique and brainstorming • Merit awards: a fixed-sum award of HK$50,000 for each successful CERG project, to be shared among PIs, their departments and faculties

  8. New Measures in detail • Incentive for FBNF: a fixed-sum award of HK$30,000 for each successful FBNF project, to be shared between PIs and their departments • Topping up IRGs: for recruiting replacement teachers • Staff mentoring: encourage Chair Professors to take up mentoring role for junior research staff

  9. RGC funded projects: ClinicalHKU 2002-03 • Out of 41 funded projects, 5 (12%) were clinical • Out of 132 submissions, 26 (20%) were clinical • Success rates: clinical (19%), overall (31%) • Out of 158 submissions in 2003-04, 38 (24%) were clinical

  10. Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme • To provide outstanding young clinicians with opportunities to receive further medical training in clinical research • A fellowship application should be accompanied by a CERG research proposal of which the applicant will be the PI. • The fellowship award is conditional on the CERG proposal being supported.

  11. Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme • Who can apply: Full-time clinical teachers of HKU or Full-time clinicians working in the HA

  12. Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme • Fellowship applications will be judged on • quality of the candidate • strength of the mentor’s endorsement • quality of the CERG proposal • institutional priority/support

  13. Longer-term Research Grant • to foster projects with research objectives to be realistically achieved in 4 to 5 years

  14. Eligibility requirements • in addition to normal eligibility requirements, • applicants should not hold, as PI, more than 2 projects, with a budget of more than $200,000 each, irrespective of sources of funding, concurrently at the time of award of the longer-term grant • researchers may hold, as PIs, at most one longer-term grant at any one time and will not be allowed to bid for RGC funding in the first 3 academic years of the project

  15. Other considerations • subject to the same CERG peer-review standards & procedures. Quality of proposals remains the principal consideration, particular emphasis on: • the number of all on-going projects of which an applicant is a PI or Co-I to ascertain that the applicant will have time and capacity to undertake a longer-term project; • proven track record of the applicant in delivering research outputs in previously RGC-funded projects

  16. Disbursement • Funding to be released in 2 installments • Release of the 2nd installment is subject to satisfactory progress of the project

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