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Career Establishment Award

Cancer Research UK

The Career Establishment Award supports new group leaders who have a salaried independent position to establish their own independent research group.

Funding will cover:

Salaries and running expenses for up to two posts. You may choose from a postdoctoral researcher, a technician and/or a (non-clinical) PhD student.
Associated running expenses
Equipment costs up to £25,000
Relocation costs up to £1,000 if you wish to take up your fellowship at a new host institution (see application guidelines for more details)
EMBO Lab Leadership for Group Leaders course: we encourage you to attend this course to gain crucial skills to run your own independent research group. Available as either an in-person (in Germany, please check with the Office for future limited UK spaces) or online course. Please see the EMBO website(link is external) for more information, including costs.

Specialties

Cancer

Oncology

Molecular Biology

Eligibility Requirements

Applications are considered from any area of our funding remit, including population, prevention and early detection/diagnosis research, but with the exception of any interventional clinical study/trial and drug discovery.

You should:

Have a full-time, fully funded post at a UK university or research institute for the duration of the award
Have space and facilities to run an independent research group
Be able to demonstrate that you meet the range of skills and experience as outlined in the ‘establishing independence’ career stage in our Fellowships Competency Framework
If you are a clinician, have completed your specialist training, which would normally include obtaining a PhD or MD, and have post-doctoral research experience

You should not have:

Already received Fellowship funding to set up your research group
A core-funded Group Leader position at one of our Institutes.

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Cancer Research UK

Address: 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ

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Grant, Award

Letter Of Intent Deadline:

Oct 03, 2024

Final Deadline:

Oct 03, 2024

Funding Amount:

$1,000,000

5 awards available. Funding period: 6 years, or part-time equivalent Funding amount: typically up to £1m (including salaries, running expenses, and equipment for up to two posts)