Early Stage/Basic Research

Grand Challenges India has been supporting innovation practitioners, focused on exploring the unique aspect of the health and developmental issues with special emphasis on innovative, impactful research in existing strategies or creating completely new opportunities and pathways to the outcomes sought on the broader global health challenges.

Supporting early- stage and basic research is important to ensure that the research and product development pipeline has multiple leads and hypotheses to allow the field to remain current and cutting-edge. Supporting early-stage research and product development, has been an early focus of GCI, with the launch of the GCE-India program in 2014 which was specifically aimed at funding innovative ideative and early- stage ideas across different areas.

Programs funded under this approach: