BioMedical Materials program (BMM)

BMM Young Investigator Call for Proposals (Call closed)

The Call for Proposals for Young Investigators opened Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 9:00 h. The deadline for submitting proposals for this Call was Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 17:00 h.

Scope

BMM invites Young Investigators, who have obtained their PhD degree less than 10 years prior to January 7th, 2010, to form consortia of academia, research institutes and industry and submit proposals for research projects that fit within the call objectives. Proposals should directly fit into one of the Research Lines: Cardiovascular, Musculoskeletal, Nephrology, Coatings, and Drug delivery (see Strategic Research Agenda).

Given the fact that the BMM program will be composed of a comprehensive set of projects, project proposals are expected to address their contribution to the overall program objectives in sufficient detail, both qualitatively and quantitatively, to enable adequate reviewing and ranking.

Objectives

The overall objectives of BMM may be summarized as:

To perform top quality research. BMM will strengthen the international position of the Netherlands in the field of biomedical materials by driving scientific and technological breakthroughs, enabling public-private and inter-institutional collaboration and educating a top-of-the-line workforce;
To generate economic value. BMM will seize potentially valuable economic opportunities for biomedical materials in the healthcare sector, attract investments and stimulate entrepreneurial activities;
To create clinical value. BMM will deliver innovative therapies with a clear patient benefit, and in the long term contribute to a cost effective Dutch healthcare system via containment and reduction of direct and/or indirect healthcare costs.

Outlook

Since BMM addresses precompetitive research in the healthcare area, it will typically take 5-10 years after completion of a research project until new technologies and applications enter into clinical practice.

Call documents

The following documents are important for submitting a Project Proposal

1. BMM Call for Proposals Young Investigator Call v4.05, 2009-10-14 (pdf) UPDATE

2. BMM Application Form Young Investigator Call v4.02, 2009-07-15 (doc)

3. BMM IP Ground Rules Young Investigator Call v4.01, 2009-07-15 (pdf)

4. BMM Financial Guidelines Young Investigator Call v4.01, 2009-07-15 (pdf)

5. BMM Spreadsheet Budget Calculation Young Investigator Call v4.00, 2009-07-08 (xls)

6. BMM Project Letter of Intent example (doc)

7. BMM ISAB Project Assessment Procedure Young Investigator Call v4.02, 2009-07-15 (pdf)

A complete set of documents is available as a zip file:

8. BMM Young Investigator Call Documents (zip) UPDATE 2009-10-14

The following two documents are for information purposes only. They are generic models for BMM contracts:

BMM Generic Model Partner Agreement (pdf)
BMM Generic Model Project Agreement (pdf)

Information Meeting

On Tuesday September 29th, 2009 BMM organized an information meeting. The meeting was held at TU/e, Building W-hoog, Room 4.24, Den Dolech 2, NL-5612 AZ EINDHOVEN, Netherlands. You can find a map and route here. The presentations and budget examples can be downloaded.

Program

13.00 Welcome and introduction on BMM (E. Staring, pdf)

13.30 Submitting a proposal (F. Baaijens, pdf)

- Procedure

- Requirements (proposal and YI)

- Approval Process

- Timeline

14.30 Understanding the Budget for Projects (W. Roelofs, pdf, zip)

15.15 Break

15.30 After approval: Essentials of Partner and Project Agreement (E. Staring, pdf)

16.15 General issues

16.30 Questions and answers

17.00 Closing of meeting

Informal gathering

Last update: 2010-01-08