Early independence: career development fellowship

The Early Independence Career Development Fellowship supports talented researchers who have gained a higher research degree and have evidence of career consolidation and productivity across past appointments. The fellowship enables recipients to lead their own research plans to establish their own research niche, start to build their own research team, and make the first step-change towards independence. The fellowship provides a competitive salary giving fellows the chance to concentrate fully on research, training and development, with funding covering up to five years (pro rata for part-time fellowships). MRC welcomes applications from across all areas of its remit to improve human health, ranging from basic studies with relevance to mechanisms of disease to translational and developmental clinical research. Science areas include infections and immunity, molecular and cellular medicine, population and systems medicine, neurosciences and mental health, translation, global health, methodology, and public health.