Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund Product Development Platform - Request for Proposals

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) is a non-profit organisation focused on promoting the discovery and development of new health technologies, including drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for infectious diseases prevalent in developing countries. The GHIT Fund aims to advance Japan’s wealth of health technology innovation for the discovery and development of new technologies for developing world patients and populations affected by infectious disease. To this end, the GHIT Fund will catalyse R&D partnerships between Japanese and non-Japanese organisations and support these partnerships through GHIT Fund investments.

Interested applicants must complete the Intent to Apply form (available at https://www.ghitfund.org/afag/grant/en) and submit this to the GHIT Fund via Editorial Manager® no later than 10:00am (Tokyo time) on 28 July 2016.

When submitting your Intent to Apply form on the Editorial Manager®, please list all the collaboration partners participating in the project; the name and details (including email address) of at least one representative from each organisation must be indicated.

Applicants who successfully submit the Intent to Apply document will receive a confirmation email. GHIT Fund staff will then perform an initial partnership and scope eligibility assessment. Only eligible applicants will be invited to submit the full proposal and will receive the proposal templates from the GHIT Fund.

Further information about the scheme is available at https://www.ghitfund.org/assets/attach/GHIT-RFP-PD-2016-002.pdf