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Career Establishment Awards
30 July 2010
Career Establishment Awards provide five years of funding to enable new, non-clinical investigators who have just taken up their first Higher Education Funding Council funded post at a UK university to establish their own research group.
Remit: The purpose of this award is to encourage the best new investigators to develop a career in cancer research, and to provide the core support required to enable successful applicants to establish their own research groups. Applications are invited from those with interests in any area of basic and biomedical science (including biology, chemistry, physics and maths), providing the applicant is able to explain the relevance of their proposal to cancer research.
Eligibility: Applicants must be
- in a full time post at a UK university which is fully funded by the relevant National Higher Education Funding Council at the time of application
- within 3 years of the start of their first academic post at the time of application.
- the sole Principal Investigator
Funding: Funding is provided for up to 60 months; the award will supply funds for one junior post-doctoral position and one research assistant or technician, as well as running expenses which may include a supplement for the applicant's own bench costs. A separate amount can be requested for equipment (up to £25,000).
Please note, Career Establishment Awards cannot be used to fund part of an applicant's salary.
Application procedure: Applicants are required to contact Cancer Research UK to discuss eligibility and the application process before being given access to the on-line application system. For further information or to register an interest, please email Dr Jamie Meredith jamie.meredith@cancer.org.uk or Dr Joslyn Taylor on joslyn.taylor@cancer.org.uk.
All applications must be made online via the Application Management System (AMS) (more details at http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/gapp/ams/?version=1).
Deadline: 30 July 2010
Contact: Dr Jamie Meredith, tel (0) 20 7438 5351, email jamie.meredith@cancer.org.uk; Dr Ben Onwuegbusi, tel: (0) 20 7438 5341, email ben.onwuegbusi@cancer.org.uk.
Further information:
- Scheme web page http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/gapp/basic_biology_research/career_estalishment_award/
- Guidelines for applications at http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/reps/pdfs/guidelines_bsc_prc.pdf?version=1