Applications for Sleep and Circadian Science Research
Wellcome invites applications for its Mental Health Award: integrating sleep and circadian science into our understanding and treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
This award will fund teams researching the interdependent roles of sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions in developing and resolving anxiety, depression, and/or psychosis. A more detailed understanding of the relationships between sleep, circadian rhythms, and mental health will enable better translation leading to new approaches for early detection and targeted intervention. Harnessing recent neuroscientific, technological, and analytic advances will allow deeper characterization of the changes occurring in sleep and circadian function, the underlying mechanisms driving these changes, and their contributions to the development and maintenance of anxiety, depression, and psychosis in diverse populations.
Wellcome invites applications that advance understanding of the dynamic changes in sleep and circadian rhythm across trajectories and phases of anxiety, depression, and psychosis, in different developmental, geographical, societal, and cultural contexts. This should involve research projects that will advance knowledge concerning at least one of the following: the biological and/or psychological mechanisms through which sleep and circadian disruption influence and are influenced by anxiety, depression, and psychosis; identification and/or validation of sleep and circadian markers that enable early stratification of people with anxiety, depression, and/or psychosis; and development of novel or improved early interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis, which target sleep and/or circadian processes.
Grants of up to £3 million ($3.6 million) over up to five years will be awarded.
Eligible applicants include teams from relevant disciplines from eligible organizations based anywhere in the world, from mainland China and sanctioned territories. Host organizations can be higher education institutions, research institutes; non-academic healthcare organizations; nonprofit or non-governmental research organizations. Commercial organizations can apply if they sign up for Wellcome’s grant conditions.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Wellcome website.
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