Early independence: clinician scientist fellowship

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Fellowship. Closes 2027-01-13. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/early-independence-clinician-scientist-fellowship/

Apply for an early independence fellowship to support your career transition within the Fellowship Investment Framework, if your research focus is within Medical Research Council (MRC) remit.

You must:

- be a registered healthcare professional

- have a PhD or equivalent

- show evidence of career consolidation and past productivity

- show clear plans for establishing your own research niche that enables a step-change towards independence

We will fund your salary and project costs (80% of the full economic cost) for up to five years (pro rata for part-time fellowships).

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

What we're looking for Scope

The aim of the fellowship is to support talented clinically active researchers who have gained a higher research degree and have evidence of career consolidation and productivity across past appointments to:

- lead their own research plans to establish their own research niche

- start to build their own research team

- make the first step-change towards independence

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.

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.

Normally fellowships would not be a suitable route to establish longitudinal population…