The funding for clinical research strengthens clinical research and facilitates the implementation of ambitious clinical research projects. The aim is to generate new research knowledge to support social welfare and healthcare, disease treatment, diagnostics and prevention, or business activity.
The funding will encourage researchers working in wellbeing services counties to collaborate with researchers at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. The four-year funding can cover salary costs of research teams and other research costs.
The funding strengthens clinical research and facilitates the implementation of ambitious clinical research projects. The clinical research project is built around a scientifically high-quality research plan, implemented by a consortium of research teams.
In addition to a doctoral degree, the principal investigator (PI) must also have other significant scientific merits. Usually the PI is a researcher at least at the docent (adjunct professor) level.
