Funder: UK Research and Innovation
Due Dates: January 13, 2027, 4:00pm UK time (Closing date)
Funding Amounts: No funding cap; 80% of full economic costs and 100% of permitted exceptions; usually three years (two to four years FTE)
Summary: Supports healthcare professionals with a PhD to reacquire research skills and rebuild momentum toward a clinical academic career.
Key Information: Applicants must have limited substantial research since their PhD and an eligible UK host organisation.
Description
Run by UKRI’s Medical Research Council (MRC), this fellowship helps registered healthcare professionals refresh research skills and re-establish research momentum after time outside academic research. It combines a research project with an integrated training and career development programme, supporting a return to a clinical academic research career.
Projects can address any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health, from basic disease mechanisms to translational and developmental clinical research. Areas include infections and immunity, molecular and cellular medicine, population and systems medicine, neurosciences and mental health, translation, global health, methodology and public health. Clinical work should inform and strengthen the research. Global health and underpinning methodology proposals must align with MRC’s core biomedical discovery-to-early-translation remit.
