SULSA Chemistry Catalyst Fund

The most recent call for applications closed on

1 April 2011. 

Applications are not being accepted at the moment.

Researchers at SULSA universities can apply for up to £20,000 SULSA funding to cover proof of concept medicinal chemistry projects. The goal of the fund is to fill the funding gap between hits from a screen into validated leads. The most recent deadline for applications was 1 April 2011, so this call for applications is now closed.

In Scope:

• Initial optimisation of hits or fragments from screening projects where additional chemistry SAR will strengthen a follow-on grant application (for example, the results of a SULSA funded HTS project).
• Medicinal Chemistry projects where a limited, specific synthetic chemistry programme could justifiably generate preliminary results for a grant application.
• Drug Metabolism and pharmacokinetic analysis to aid translational grant applications.

• Synthesis of existing tool compounds, assay standards or literature compounds.
• Primary biological screening and assays.