Grants & Sponsorships

A*STAR provides competitive grant support and research resources to scientists and engineers in its research institutes as well as other publicly funded institutions such as universities, hospitals and specialty centres in Singapore.

Its various calls for grants and sponsorships include:

• Bilateral Joint Research Grant Calls (International)
• BMRC General Grant Calls
• BMRC Consortia Grant Calls
• SERC Public Sector Funding
• SERC Thematic Strategic Research Programme
• SERC Biomedical Engineering Programme (BEP)
• A*STAR-CIMIT Joint Call for Proposals
• Translational Clinical Research Partnership (TCRP) Grant Call for Duke-NUS/Singhealth Academic Local Programme (ACP) 

A*STAR also has grants and sponsorships that cater only to its own researchers. They are:

• A*STAR Joint Council Project Grant
• A*STAR Joint Council Career Development Award
• A*STAR Joint Council Development Programme Grant
• A*STAR Joint Council Visiting Investigatorship Programme Grant
• Funding for A*STAR Joint Council Workshops
• BMRC Young Investigator Grant Call 2013

The Singapore Government recently signed a cooperation agreement with the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) which opens new funding opportunities to researchers in A*STAR, NTU and NUS.

• EMBO-Singapore Cooperation Agreement