CONSORTIUM CALL 2025
The 2025 Milner Therapeutics Consortium Call opened on 13 January, with an exciting new focus around pharma-led challenges.
Our pharma partners in the Milner Therapeutics Consortium have identified topics for challenges that are a current priority for external collaboration with academics. These projects could provide a better understanding of a disease mechanism or discover and validate new therapeutic targets and can range from reagent sharing and 6-month pilots to 2-year postdoctoral funded collaborations. They are expected to lead to joint publications with the company partners.
Are you an academic at the University of Cambridge, Babraham or Wellcome Sanger Institutes? Do you have an idea for a potential pre-clinical collaborative project that would benefit from industry expertise and know-how?
The 2025 Consortium Call opened on 13 January 2025, and is seeking project proposals for current challenges in:
- Neuroscience
- Immunology and Inflammation
- New technologies that will aid therapeutic discovery
- Infectious Disease
- Oncology
- Reproductive Medicine
- Metabolic and Cardiovascular disease
We can provide the following items for successful projects:
- Support for pilot (6 months) or longer-term projects (1-2 years)
- Funding e.g. for a research associate and consumables
- Access to company reagents where appropriate e.g. tool compounds, compound libraries
- Expertise e.g. in particular techniques, disease areas, target selection and validation
The Consortium Call is a competitive process; a company may engage in a few initial discussions around a potential project before deciding to proceed and project proposals are then subject to an internal approval process at the company. Although many proposals will not result in a funded project in the short term, these introductions are a good opportunity to make connections and build a relationship with pharma partners, as well as to receive useful feedback from the pharma perspective.
Important dates
Call opens: 13 January 2025
Information webinar: 27 January 2025. Click here to register.
Call closes: 7 March 2025
Contact us
If you have any questions, please email Consortium@milner.cam.ac.uk
Application material downloads:
Application Form (Word) »
Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) »
Topics
Please note the page is password protected as the Call is restricted to academics at the University of Cambridge, Babraham and Wellcome Sanger Institutes. If you are a member of any of these three organisations and are unable to gain access, please contact our Consortium Manager, Asha Carpenter: Consortium@milner.cam.ac.uk.