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Bayer's mission is to provide new treatment options for diseases with high unmet medical need.
Bayer HealthCare allocates grants for the exploration of attractive, novel drug targets in the fields of: Oncology, Gynecology, Cardiology and Hematology.

The grants fund research on novel drug targets as a basis for the development of new therapeutic approaches, as well as research on disease-related biomarkers in the therapeutic fields mentioned below, by combining expertise from industry and academia.

 

• Oncology: Focus on oncogenic signaling.
• Gynecology: Focus on novel treatment options for endometriosis (incl. adenomyosis uteri/endometriosis interna), uterine fibroids (uterine leiomyoma) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
• Cardiology: Focus on novel approaches to the care of chronic and/or acute pulmonary hypertension & adjacent lung indications, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, ischemic stroke, peripheral arterial occlusive disease, acute lung injury/adult respiratory distress syndrome, cardiorenal syndrome and including kidney and lung diseases.
• Hematology: Focus on novel, innovative targets for hemophilia. 

Target must be a nucleic acid or a protein (e.g. an enzyme, a receptor) whose activity can be modified by a drug.

Target should have shown to be effective/ mechanistically involved in the disease by relevant in vitro or in vivo models. Target is disease-modifying and/or has a proven function in the pathophysiology of a disease.

Types of grants:

• Support Grants For druggable targets that are at a very early stage of discovery.
• Focus Grants: for more mature ideas, e.g. to address specific aspects of a target as a first step towards transferring it to the drug discovery process. 
  Grant types do not need to be selected by the grant applicant.

Convocatoria (URL) 

https://grants4targets.bayer.com/home/pharma/

Researchers from universities, other academic research institutes and start-up companies from all over the world are eligible.

Two types of grants:

• Support Grants: €5,000-€10,000
• Focus Grants: €10,000-€125,000

Grant applications can only be submitted via the electronic submission platform. It is only necessary to provide an abstract describing your idea and target, its characteristics and a separate description of its therapeutic potential, and a CV and relevant publications. Please note that only non-confidential information should be provided. 

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grants4targets