Extramural Grants

Funding: Upto 2 crores per project

Duration: Maximum 3 years (An additional period of up to 6 months for preparatory activities (with no additional costs) can be incorporated in the project proposal).

To fund research studies to achieve specific and measurable objectives in line with ICMR priorities.

Also, Multidisciplinary projects which aim to find solutions to priority disease and conditions will receive preference for funding

Funding: Upto 2 crores per project

Duration: Maximum 3 years (An additional period of up to 6 months for preparatory activities (with no additional costs) can be incorporated in the project proposal).

To leverage the transformation of research-leads generated through ICMR’s previous grants to the next steps.

To enable continuity beyond initial grant cycles and ensure promising innovations are not discontinued due to gaps in funding. Overall aim is to maximize the benefits on the ICMR's research investments

Funding: Between 2-8 crores per project

Duration: Maximum 4 years ( An additional period of up to 6 months for preparatory activities (with no additional costs) can be incorporated in the project proposal.)

The research projects expected to result in finding solutions to priority health problems by validation or evaluation of interventions that already have been shown to have proof of concept.

The project should lead to significant contributions in generating effective interventions for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of those disease conditions.

Funding: Between 2-8 crores per project

Duration: Maximum 4 years ( An additional period of up to 6 months for preparatory activities (with no additional costs) can be incorporated in the project proposal.)

To leverage the transformation of research-leads generated through ICMR’s previous grants to the next steps.

To enable continuity beyond initial grant cycles and ensure promising innovations are not discontinued due to gaps in funding. Overall aim is to maximize the benefits on the ICMR's research investments

Funding: Up to 8 crore as per stage of innovation product whether Proof of concept, prototype and product

For innovative, out of the box ideas from researchers across the country and inspired by Chandrayan 3 landing on the south pole of the moon, making India the first country to do so.

To fund innovative ideas for finding solutions to difficult health problems and to foster novel, out of the box, futuristic ideas, new knowledge generation, discovery / development of breakthrough health technologies

Funding: 15 crores per CAR.

Funding: 5 years.

To promote advanced research by experienced research teams.

The proposed CAR is expected to conduct decisive research that helps in solving an important healthcare problem by a research team. It can have single or multiple linked research projects with clear deliverables.

Funding: Maximum 8 crores per project

Funding: 4 years.

To support high-impact, academic or non-regulatory randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that require data from multiple sites to achieve statistical significance and generalizability to address NCDs.

A separate program to fund research projects on National Health Research Priority (NHRP) and are being monitored directly at the level of DG, ICMR.

Following extensive deliberations, the research priorities were encompassed for critical disease conditions like Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), One Health, Tuberculosis, Vector-borne Diseases, Cancer, Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Care, Mental Health, Anemia, Stunting and Wasting, Neonatal Mortality, Acute Emergency Care, Oral Health, etc

These are large decisive multi-state projects with upper ceiling for such projects is Rs 25Cr for each project over the entire period of the duration. Funding will be up to Rs 8 Cr/site. Projects will be for a maximum period of 4 years, extendable by 1 year with due approval of competent authority

Currently 30 such projects are ongoing.

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