Grant Schemes and Awards
As part of our longstanding charitable mission to support ground breaking medical research, we offer a range of grant schemes.
Find out how you might take advantage of this broad offering
EMERGING CLINICAL RESEARCHERS AWARDS
These grants are designed to provide Emerging Clinical Researchers with seed funding of typically £10k to generate pilot data and to facilitate the development of a competitive fellowship application within the broad scope of translational medicine.
Applicants should be clinically qualified, in possession of their MD / PhD, and yet to achieve substantive fellowship, or other substantive independent research funding. Applicants should have a minimum of 20% designated research time (for example, a clinical lecturer post). Applicants be clinically active. They should be within a UK or Irish University. Applicants should either be members of the Association, or be sponsored by a member. Previously successful applicants are not eligible to reapply to the scheme. The AoP contributes to the AMS Starter Grants, therefore individuals in receipt of an AMS Starter Grant aren’t eligible to apply.
Applicants should either be members of the Association, or be sponsored by a member. Previously successful applicants are not eligible to reapply to the scheme.
Successful applicants will be invited to become members, speak at a future annual meeting and will have access to the AoP mentorship scheme.
Awards can be submitted at any time, the two deadlines being 31st May and 24th November and will be considered twice a year (on or after 1st June and 1st December) by the Executive Committee. You can submit your application by completing the online form below. Please note a CV of no more than 2 pages will be required at the time of application.
Please click here to download the guidelines.
| Karen Suetterlin | Newcastle University |
| Christopher Jones | University of Cambridge |
| Prasad Palani Velu | ECAT |
| Michael Mather | NIHR |
| Liam Townsend | Trinity Translational Medicine Institute |
| Edouard Gregory Mills | NIHR |
| 2023/2024 (December Round) | Katherine Lodge, Imperial College London Ananda Mirchandani, Centre of Inflammation Research, Institute of Regeneration and Repair Ben Jones, Imperial College London |
| 2021/2022 (June Round) | Vishal Patel, The Institute of Hepatology, London |
| 2020/2021 (December Round) | Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya, Imperial College London |
| 2020/2021 (June Round) | Elaine Soon, University of Cambridge |
| 2019/2020 (December Round) | Danijela Tatovic, Cardiff University |
| 2019/2020 (June Round) | Ashwin Dhanda, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Roger Thompson, University of Sheffield |
| 2018/2019 (December Round) | Claire Meek, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre Thomas Pembroke, Cardiff University / University Hospital of Wales Aran Singanayagam, COPD and Asthma Section National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London |
| 2018/2019 (June Round) | James Bluett, The University of Manchester Fadil Hannan, Royal Liverpool University Hospital Dimitra Peppa, University of Oxford Peter Taylor, Cardiff University / University Hospital of Wales |
| 2017/2018 (December Round) | Eve Miller-Hodges, Edinburgh University Uazman Alam , University Hospital Aintree |
| 2017/2018 (June Round) | William Alazawi, Blizard Institute Neeraj Dhaun, British Heart Foundation Michael Marks, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Alex Rothman, University of Sheffield Jaime Vera, Brighton and Sussex Medical School University of Sussex |
| 2016/2017 | Charalambos Gustav Antoniades, Imperial College London James Dear, Edinburgh University |
SUMMER STUDENTSHIP
These grants are designed to support undergraduate medical students interested in exploring a career in academic medicine gain experience in the research group of an AoP member.
£2,000 will be provided for each award.
Please refer to the Summer Studentships Guidelines for applicants
- The supervisor must be a current member of The Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Applications to be submitted by 17 April 2025 for consideration by the Executive committee
- The decision of the committee shall be final
- Studentships can be taken up from June 2025
- Successful applicants are expected to present a poster of their work at the AoP Meeting in Spring 2026
Application Information; Please complete the online form.
Past Awardees
2023/2024 | Cyril Kocherry, University of Dundee Julian Shellard, University of Oxford Kieran Cannon, Keele University Eleanor Kerr, The University of Edinburgh Emma Wenxin Mao, The University of Oxford Taisha Peplowska, Newcastle University Colette Revadillo University of Edinburgh Bronwen Palmer, Cardiff University Jessica Sayfullaeva, University of Galway, Ireland Jiya Jacob, Cardiff University |
| 2022/2023 | George Cooper, University of Edinburgh Maryam Borumand, University of Buckingham |
| 2021/2022 | Matthew Lim, University of Glasgow |
| 2020/2021 | Ericka Maye, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park |
2019/2020 | Adanna Anomneze-Collins, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park |
2018/2019 | Laurence Dobbie, University of Glasgow |
| 2017/2018 | Emily Boother, Imperial College London School of Medicine Zoe Macqueen, University of Glasgow, School of Medicine |
STARTER GRANTS FOR CLINICAL LECTURERS
The AoP is delighted to be a funder of the Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant Award Programme.
Round 32 of the scheme is now open
This scheme was launched in October 2008 as a partnership between the Academy and the Wellcome Trust. Current funders of the scheme are the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation (since 2011), Versus Arthritis (since 2012), Medical Research Council (since 2013), Diabetes UK (since 2016), the Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland (since 2020) and Prostate Cancer UK (since 2023).
The grants provide modest ‘starter’ funds to enable research active Clinical Lecturers to pursue their research work. Clinical Lecturer posts provide a salary but often do not come with the funding to support the costs of the research. This scheme was designed to help bridge this gap by providing Clinical Lecturers with access to modest research funds for up to two years. It gives them experience of preparing a research grant application and helps them establish their research portfolios by providing funding for research consumables.
The deadline for applications is 5 September at 16.00 BST. For more information and to apply, please visit the Academy’s Website.
Are you looking to develop your application to the Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers scheme with patients and the public?
The Academy has launched a new funding pilot which provides up to £2,500 to cover the costs (time and expenses) for up to 5 patient and public contributors. For more information please visit the Academy’s website.
Previous Award Winners
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease
at Imperial College London MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow
“Receiving the AoPGBI young investigator grant has been a key contributor to my ability to build an independent research career. The grant gave me crucial seed funding, during a critical and precarious stage in my career, enabling me to conduct pilot experiments and obtain strong preliminary data for my intermediate fellowship applications. This culminated in award of an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2020. I am extremely grateful to the AoPGBI for providing this generous funding and it has been extremely important for my career development.”
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease
at Imperial College London MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow
“The Young Investigator funding I received was instrumental in maintaining collaborative work across several institutions and allowing me to explore new avenues of investigation, independent from fellowship funding. Despite facing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the funding allowed me to pursue innovative studies, support undergraduate research experience in my lab and provided helpful preliminary data for future grant applications.”
