We will achieve our mission by: supporting reciprocal visits of researchers, exchange research materials and technologies, providing a platform for lectures, seminars, webinars, conferences and training, funding research in the UK/EU carried out by students from the subcontinent (at PhD and above) that cannot be completed in their home country due to unavailability of equipment/resources, funding research positions in UK/EU institutions that will promote biomedical education in the subcontinent and publicly disseminating the useful knowledge resulting from the research that is funded.

As biomedical sciences are the cornerstone of modern medicine, our activity of promoting and supporting advances in biomedical education through laboratory-based research will inevitably lead to research programmes to address the nation’s health. They will help to develop new technologies/ideas/innovations that would be employed in future for disease prevention, early diagnosis, effective disease management, repurposing of established drugs and improved treatment modalities. This will also help raise public awareness about the benefits of healthy lifestyle in disease prevention which will contribute immensely to the economic growth of the region.

The COVID pandemic has enlightened the public on the importance of biomedical research in general and the need for research infrastructure in their respective countries. Most researchers in these countries are English speaking and yet they find it challenging to access technologies developed in the West and adopt them according to their needs in their countries. FRIS is going to change that by encouraging and supporting collaborations between the biomedical researchers based in the UK/EU and those based in countries of the subcontinent.

As FRIS is just being set-up, we are at present not accepting applications for grant support.

We are currently collecting donations to support our objectives, soon we will start by inviting grant applications. In the meantime, we are still able to help researchers wishing to establish collaboration or study for higher degrees in the UK or EU by giving them general advice and suggestions.

Your donations will be used to promote research collaborations in all the seven countries of the Indian subcontinent in areas of Biomedical Sciences in the form of travel grants, visa fee, living expenses, publication fee and laboratory consumable costs. In the long term, we also propose to appoint senior researchers in the UK/EU institutions, dedicated to collaborating with researchers in the subcontinent. The primary benefits to institutions and researchers arising from such collaborations will be: i) more research funding, ii) improvement in research infrastructure, (iii) better training of researchers, and (iv) academic recognition locally/nationally and internationally, and v) raising public awareness about disease prevention, the importance of biomedical research/education and the challenges faced by researchers in the subcontinent.

Your donations will have huge impact on public awareness about the importance of basic biomedical research and education in countries of the Indian subcontinent. This will translate into highly capable students opting for biomedical research as a profession. In the long run, our activities will encourage federal governments and local charities to direct more resources toward biomedical research resulting in more projects being launched, new institutes being opened, and new faculties being appointed. In the UK and EU, FRIS will encourage the established biomedical researchers to collaborate with the researchers in the subcontinent resulting in high impact publications and patents. These activities eventually will encourage both the public and private sectors to invest in better healthcare for the population at large of different countries in the subcontinent.