The funders wish to encourage high quality, innovative research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.
We will fund research in:
The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics.
BBSRC and MRC are also keen to encourage proposals with a focus on:
- plant health
- coronaviruses
- other zoonotic pathogens.
Among the areas of particular interest for this funding opportunity are:
- the role of social influences on the susceptibility of individuals or populations
- multiway interactions between pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms and their mutual hosts
- the role of medical, agricultural or environmental practices on pathogen emergence and transmission
- emergence of pathogens from non-pathogenic populations
- host switching
- evolutionary dynamics in an ecological context such as disease control interventions and drug resistance
- animal and human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2
- plant health.
UKRI expects to fund two to four projects.
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