The first call of a new UCD funding scheme focused on Personalised and Translational Medicine, and One Health is now open for applications. 

The UCD Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF), is supported under the SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership, with matched funding from UCD, and aims to help UCD’s researchers overcome systemic barriers to career and network development, ultimately unlocking future research potential within the University and beyond. The fund will support high-quality research in the biomedical and clinical sciences, and medical humanities. 

The Clinical Primer Scheme 

This scheme will support qualified, early-stage medical and veterinary clinicians; practitioners; and individuals of the allied health services within medicine and veterinary medicine, and allow them an opportunity to work in a research environment, generating significant research outcomes that can be leveraged to pursue future external funding.

€55,000 is available over 12 months to support clinical buy-out time and associated research costs. This scheme is specifically open to individuals employed either by UCD; hospitals within the Ireland East Hospital Group; or medical and veterinary medical centres affiliated with, or linked in to UCD.

Full details of this scheme are available here or via the ISSF website.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 24 March 2017 at 17:00pm. Applications and queries to be submitted via email to issf@ucd.ie