Postdoctoral clinical researchers

All grants and programmes available to postdoctoral biomedical and health researchers with a clinical degree are listed below. 


Grant schemes

  • Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers - supports research-active Clinical Lecturers by covering the costs of research consumables to help them gather data to strengthen their bids for longer-term fellowships and funding.
  • Cross-Sector Experience Awards - supports individuals who want to work in a different sector to their own for between three and twelve months.

Currently inactive grant schemes

  • Clinician Scientist Fellowships - this scheme offered salary support and research costs for clinical researchers to pursue translational research alongside clinical work. No further round of the scheme is currently planned.
  • Daniel Turnberg Travel Fellowships -  travel fellowships for early career biomedical and clinical researchers to foster collaborations between the Middle East and the UK. 
  • Hamied Foundation UK-India AMR Visiting Professorships- support short visits that seek to facilitate collaboration between the most talented researchers in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the UK and India.

Other considerations


Programmes

  • Mentoring programme - check if you are eligibile to join the programme and be paired with an Academy Fellow to get career development support.
  • SUSTAIN - award holders from partner organisations are eligible for this programme that enables women to thrive in their independent research careers. 

Events and conferences

 

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