ISIDORE Calls for Proposals: Vector-Borne Pathogens and Their Vectors

ISIDORE supports your research project by providing you free access to our services. Consult our scientific strategy and apply to the Vector-Borne Pathogens and Their Vectors.

The geographic and host ranges of vector-borne diseases are expanding, mostly due to anthropogenic factors. With rising temperatures and changing weather patterns, the risk of these diseases affecting increasingly large areas of the world will continue to rise, as reflected by the record number cases of dengue (including non-imported ones) and West Nile virus observed in Europe in 2022.

The ISIDORe consortium supports scientists with an interest in the causative agents and vectors of these fast-spreading diseases.

Researchers are invited to submit any proposal that:

• Can be advanced by access to at least one of our services,
• Falls under one of the following sections (see SCOPE), and
• Is focused on at least one eligible vector-borne pathogen (see below and full ISIDORe PPP list).

Services:

• Analytical services
• Cell models
• In vivo models
• Support for diagnostic and therapeutic development
• Social sciences & epidemiology

Scope:

• Section 1: Surveillance & epidemic management
• Section 2: Natural history of infectious diseases / Deciphering & understanding pathogens’ biology, host-pathogen interactions and host responses to infection
• Section 3: Diagnostics
• Section 4: Therapeutics
• Section 5: Vaccines
• Section 6: Social sciences & epidemiology
• Section 7: Vector biology & vector control

Your full application must be submitted within 6 weeks upon receipt of your ISIDORe project number. Proposals will be evaluated, selected and implemented on a rolling basis as long as funding remains. Open as long as funding remains available. 

Read more here.