Capacity building: clinical research training fellowship

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Fellowship. Closes 2027-01-13. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/capacity-building-clinical-research-training-fellowship/

Apply for funding to reacquire research skills.

Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit.

You must:

- be a registered healthcare professional

- be a PhD graduate working outside of research, usually five or more years

- show plans to pursue a clinical academic research career and be at an appropriate point in your clinical training

We will fund your salary and project costs for three years. We will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC).

You may also apply for joint funding from one of the collaborating organisations.

This is an ongoing funding opportunity. Application rounds close every January, April and September.

What we're looking for Scope

We welcome applications from across all areas of our remit to improve human health. This may range from basic studies with relevance to mechanisms of disease, to

translational and developmental clinical research.

We expect your clinical work will help to inform and strengthen your research work.

Our science areas include:

- infections and immunity

- molecular and cellular medicine

- population and systems medicine

- neurosciences and mental health

- translation

- global health

- methodology

- public health

Explore MRC’s areas of scientific remit.

Please note that global health research and underpinning methodology research should align with our core remit spanning from biomedical discovery research to early translational research.

Requirements

You must be able to:

- explain why a fellowship is the best way to support you to reacquire research skills and your plan to pursue clinical academic research career

- have plans for a coherent and integrated training programme

- outline how you will seek opportunities to access career development support, for example, professional training…