Internal research funding opportunities managed and distributed by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº departments.
Current/ongoing funding opportunities
- Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF)
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº holds an Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) award from the Wellcome Trust. The ISSF aims to facilitate the investment of mutual strategic importance to Wellcome and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. It has enabled us to invest in and support ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº research in life and biomedical sciences since it was first awarded in October 2016. The Life and Medical Sciences Research Coordination Office manages the Wellcome ISSF programme on behalf of the SLMS Research Board at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº.
- Excellence Fellowships
The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Excellence Fellowships programme recruits exceptional early career clinical and non-clinical researchers to help them establish their independent career and become the research leaders of the future by providing salary, research funding and academic support. This programme is overseen by SLMS leadership and managed by the SLMS Research Coordination Office.
- Translational Funding
The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Translational Research Office (TRO) offer a number of translational funding opportunities available to ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and partner researchers. The TRO offers funding that differs from standard project grants by being milestone-driven with clear decision criteria that require active project management.
- ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Public Engagement Funding
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Public Engagement Funding equips ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº researchers with the means to put their public engagement ideas into practice. Grants are available for various stages of your academic career, and the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Public Engagement Team also provide advice and support on applying for external funding.
Find out more about ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Public Engagement Funding opportunities
- ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Grand Challenges Small Grants
The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Grand Challenges Small Grants scheme stimulates new cross-disciplinary collaborations between researchers from different academic units, in order to address societally significant problems. Collaborations can also include external partners as additional academic or non-academic collaborators.
- ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Faculty of Life Sciences Bogue Fellowships
The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) Bogue Fellowships support visits to carry out research in laboratories in the USA and Canada in order ‘to enrich the research experience and help develop the scientific career of the Fellow’. Fellowships are restricted to applicanStudents or postdoctoral researchers carrying out basic research in clinical departments are, however, eligible.
Closed calls (for information)
- Capital Equipment Fund CallÌý(CEF4)
- Capital Equipment Fund CallÌý(CEF4) for researchers in the faculties of Life and Medical Sciences
Scope
This funding is intended to support purchase of strategically important research capital equipment. We expect many of the successful applications to be for major equipment that will be managed within multi-user facilities such as the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Science Technology Platforms or within other existing core facilities.
Applications are expected to be in excess of £50k. Awards will support equipment purchase, installation, shipping and standard warranties. Ineligible costs include (but are not limited to) extended warranties, training, consumables, service/maintenance contracts, staff and estates costs. All equipment purchased through CEF4 must be on site no later than 31 July 2022. Any equipment delivered after this date may risk having its CEF4 support withdrawn.
The CEF scheme is intended to complement other schemes, such as BBSRC ALERT, that provide funds for the purchase of strategically important equipment. Applicants may be encouraged to apply for external funding in the first instance. MRC are due to release an equipment funding call, the timelines and details for this are as yet unknown. We will look to align the CEF4 process with the MRC scheme once details are available.
Applications will be assessed through a process of internal review and prioritisation by the Vice-Deans Research for the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences.
For Financial Year 2021/22, we will run one call for applications for equipment funding.
Supporting documents
- WEISS Health Challenge 2020
The WEISS Health Challenge is open to doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and commissioners involved in healthcare at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-affiliated institutions and working in the following areas of surgery/intervention: anaesthetics, cardiac and vascular, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal, neurosurgical/CNS, paediatric, radiology, urological, women’s health.
WEISS researchers will help you develop a solution to your challenge, working in partnership with you to make sure the new technology, device, or innovation will really work for you, your colleagues and your patients. We expect to fund 3-5 awards for this call, with the following possible outcomes:
- 50% WEISS funded fellowship at ST level 3-7, estimated at £40,000 per annum
- Pump-prime award, up to £20,000 per project
- PPI support, up to £2,000 per project
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Contact: Dr Dimitris Siasakos (d.siasakos@ucl.ac.uk)
- WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships 2020
The WEISS Senior Clinical Fellowships have been created to help develop new collaborations between academic clinicians at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Partner Hospitals and WEISS principal investigators. Each fellow can help develop new ideas whilst expanding their own research interests; they will also help bridge the gap between clinicians and engineers to help each understand the other better.
Five fellowships are available and applications are open to all consultants and trainees in their final two years of SpR training at any ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Partner Hospital. WEISS will offer funding support of up to £13,000 per annum to each successful candidate for relevant projects or attendance at meetings.
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Contact: Dr Su-Lin Lee (su-lin.lee@ucl.ac.uk)
- SLMS Capital Equipment Fund 2019–2020 (Call 3)
Applications are invited for research capital equipment that will be assessed through a process of internal review and prioritisation by the Chair of SLMS Research Board and Vice-Deans of Research. All bids must demonstrate a clear strategic need and add value to existing research programmes and/or Facilities. The Capital Equipment Fund is available for equipment purchases from now to the end of July 2020.
Submission documents
Contact
Dr Ruth Jamieson (r.jamieson@ucl.ac.uk)Internal review process
Yes, for applicants based (or to be based) in SLMSInternal deadline
10 April 2019
- Early Career Neuroscience Prize
Each year the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Neuroscience Domain presents the Early Career Neuroscience Prize to two ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº neuroscientists. The prize aims to recognise outstanding work published in the past year by early-career ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº neuroscientists in any field of neuroscience, and is awarded in two categories; junior scientist and advanced scientist.
Deadline: 18 March 2019
- ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Excellence in Health Research Prize 2019
The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Populations & Lifelong Health Domain, with support from the Domain's Early Careers Network, the SLMS Research Coordination Office and the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Faculty of Population Health Sciences, are running a competition to recognise excellent peer-reviewed, published, original research authored by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº early career researchers in the broad theme of populations and lifelong health.
Prize winners will receive a substantial award (£5000 first prize, £2000 second prize) that they can use as appropriate to support their research or career development, and will be invited to present their winning paper at the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Populations & Lifelong Health Symposium on 26 March 2019. The winner of the 2018 ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Excellence in Health Research Prize was: Dr Briony Hudson. Runner up: Sara Ahmadi-Abhari
Deadline: 25 February 2019
Find out more about the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Excellence in Health Research Prize
- ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Global Health Grand Challenge: Health Systems initiative
Up to £2,500 for proposals that use a cross-disciplinary approach to investigate the ways in which Health Systems can ensure that medical advances are translated into significant gains for effective and equitable healthcare.
Deadline: 3 December 2018
- SLMS Capital Equipment Fund 2018-19 (Call 2)
Applications are invited for research capital equipment that will be assessed through a process of internal review and prioritisation by the Chair of SLMS Research Board and Vice-Deans of Research. All bids must demonstrate a clear strategic need and add value to existing research programmes and/or Facilities. The Capital Equipment Fund is available for equipment purchases from now to the end of July 2019.
SLMS Research Capital Equipment Fund 2018-19 (Call 2) Guidelines
Expression of Interest formSupporting documents
Internal review process
Yes, for applicants based (or to be based) in SLMSInternal deadline
12 November 2018Contact
Dr Evi Tsaliki (e.tsaliki@ucl.ac.uk)
Dr Ruth Jamieson (r.jamieson@ucl.ac.uk)Ìý
- Capital Equipment Fund Call (CEF5) for researchers in the faculties of Life and Medical Sciences
Scope
This funding is intended to support purchase of strategically important research capital equipment. We expect many of the successful applications to be for major equipment that will be managed within multi-user facilities such as the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Science Technology Platforms or within other existing core facilities.
Applications are expected to be in excess of £50k. Awards will support equipment purchase, installation, shipping and standard warranties. Ineligible costs include (but are not limited to) extended warranties, training, consumables, service/maintenance contracts, staff and estates costs. All equipment purchased through CEF5 must be on site no later than 31 July 2023. Equipment delivered after this date risks having its CEF5 support withdrawn.
The CEF scheme is intended to complement other schemes, such as MRC-Equip or BBSRC ALERT, that provide funds for the purchase of strategically important equipment. Applicants may be encouraged to apply for external funding in the first instance.Ìý
Applications will be assessed through a process of internal review and ranking by STP Academic Leads followed by review and prioritisation by the Vice-Deans Research for the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences.
For Financial Year 2022/23, we will run one call for applications for equipment funding.
Important Dates
- Deadline for applications:ÌýFriday 11ÌýNovember 2022, 11:00 GMT
- CEF5 Review Panel meeting: w/c Monday 5 or 12 December 2022
- Equipment delivery deadline: Monday 31 July 2023Ìý
Supporting Documents