Call for Proposals
UK Research and Innovation and India’s Department of Biotechnology and Ministry of Science and Technology have joined forces to support four collaborative bilateral research partnerships worth £5 million, aimed at providing deeper understanding COVID-19 severity in South Asian populations located in India and the UK. Projects will be funded in partnership between DBT and UKRI’s Fund for International Collaboration.
Through the UK-India Covid-19 Partnership Initiative, DBT and UKRI will support world-leading UK-India research teams. The successful projects aim to understand the pandemic through the study of related ethnic groups in different environments in both countries. These projects have the potential to deliver public health impacts in mitigating the severity of the COVID-19 in both the UK and India.