Grants
Please note that the last grant call under RIE2025 will be the July 2025 grant call. There is no planned grant call in January 2026. Subject to approval of the RIE2030 framework, the first grant call under RIE2030 is expected to be launched in July 2026.
The Transition Award (TA) aims to provide salary & mentored funding support for budding, young clinician scientists who have just completed their formal research training, to build up their capability in research. The award aims to help them to transit to a stable independent research position or other independent research funding.
The long-term goal of the award is to increase the cohort of new and talented, NMRC-supported independent CSs in the three CS tracks: Translational & Clinical Research (TCR), Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) or Health Technology.
This programme is open to applications on all research areas. Applicants focusing on translation of research and innovations into healthcare in the following strategic areas (covering both expertise in technology as well as use case areas) will be prioritised:
Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with AI, Data Science and/or Technology talent where possible, and the necessary budget to engage them can be incorporated into the grant applications where needed/applicable.
Table 1: NMRC’s Annual Salary Cap by Clinician’s Clinical Grade
Clinician’s Clinical Grade |
Annual salary cap for 1 FTE |
---|---|
Senior Consultant |
S$300,000 |
Consultant |
S$200,000 |
Associate Consultant |
S$150,000 |
Registrar |
S$120,000 |
Note: Full-time-equivalent (FTE) - For a 5-day work-week, 1 FTE is typically 40 hours and 0.1 FTE is 4hrs.
^Indirect cost is not applicable for budget items such as research scholarship.
Notes :
The applications will be evaluated through a one-stage review process by a local selection panel.
The assessment criteria will be broadly as follows:
The review process will take about 5-6 months after the application closes. Applicants may be invited for an interview by the panel.
It is mandatory for all applications with the endorsement from the Host Institution's Research Director to be submitted to NMRC via IGMS by 06 February 2025, 5pm (Singapore Time). Late/incomplete submission or submissions from individual applicants without Director of Research’s (DOR) endorsement on the IGMS will not be entertained.
Please download the Application Guide and Application Templates for reference and for more information.
The composition of the TA Review Panel (2023 – 2026) is listed below:
S/N | Name | Institution |
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1 | Prof Roger Foo (co-chair) |
National University Heart Centre Singapore |
2 | Prof Saw Seang Mei (co-chair) |
Duke-NUS Medical School |
3 | A/Prof Derrick Chan | KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital |
4 | A/Prof Sanjay Chotirmall | Nanyang Technological University |
5 | A/Prof Melvin Chua | National Cancer Centre Singapore |
6 | A/Prof Andrea Kwa | Singapore General Hospital |
7 | A/Prof Lim Su Chi | Khoo Teck Puat Hospital |
8 | A/Prof Chester Drum | National University Heart Centre Singapore |
9 | A/Prof Shefaly Shorey | National University of Singapore |
10 | A/Prof Mythily Subramaniam | Institute of Mental Health |
11 | A/Prof David Tan | National University Hospital |
12 | A/Prof Daniel Ting | Singapore National Eye Centre |