Global Grand Challenges: Novel Interventions Targeting Placental and Gut Inflammation to Improve Fetal Growth

This Grand Challenge includes three funding tracks designed to accelerate mechanistic discovery, candidate advancement, and early validation of interventions targeting maternal gut-placenta inflammatory axes and oxidative stress to improve fetal growth outcomes.

Track 1: Mechanism and Target Discovery -.

Track 2: Candidate Validation and Translational Advancement

Track 3: Early Clinical Proof-of-Concept (POC) -

Track 1:

Funding: up to $400,000 total 

Duration: up to 18 months. 

Track 2:

Funding: $750,000 total 

Duration; 2 years

Track 3:

Funding: $1,000,000 total 

Duration: 30 months

Research Authority due date: 21.4.26