The Research Management Grant is the institutional strand of the Research Management Programme, which DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance runs under Phase III of the Biomedical Research Career Programme beside fellowships and travel bursaries for research managers.
It funds institutions doing health and biomedical research in India to strengthen how they support and manage research.
Benefits & funding
- An institutional grant for research-management work at the applying institution.
- The pages we could open state neither the award amount nor its length; check the current guidelines on the competitions page.
Eligibility
- Applicants are institutions, not individual researchers; the grant supports research management in India’s research ecosystem.
- Individual research managers apply instead to the programme’s fellowships or travel bursaries.
Can you apply?
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No nationality, residency, education, experience, gender or age limit is listed. The other conditions are under Eligibility.
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Application process
- 1Read the current Research Management guidelines on India Alliance’s competitions page.
- 2Prepare the institution’s proposal for strengthening its research-management support.
- 3Submit by the call deadline; the 2026 Round 1 call ran from 2 February to 10 April 2026.
Program timeline
Round 1 opened
Feb 2, 2026
Round 1 application deadline
Apr 10, 2026
Next round
not yet announced