NIHR GOSH BRC Doctoral Training Support Fund 2024

The NIHR recognises the benefit of supporting academic trainees in developing the next generation of clinical and non-clinical scientists to improve both the health and wealth of the UK. Therefore GOSH BRC will continue its support for doctoral trainees within GOSH and ICH by providing competitive consumables grants to augment the existing non-pay funding available within their studentship awards. These competitive awards also provide an excellent opportunity for students to get experience with small grant writing.

The Doctoral Training Support Fund invites proposals for a maximum of £5,000 for consumables funding for translational clinical research/experimental medicine projects being undertaken by doctoral students within GOSH and ICH. Supported projects must be patient and/or disease relevant research including basic laboratory science, pre-clinical and early-phase clinical research (phase 0-II). Further information on the objectives of the NIHR GOSH BRC and the remit of each of the five research themes can be found at https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/our-research/our-research-infrastructure/nihr-great-ormond-street-hospital-brc/about-our-biomedical-research-centre/our-research-themes/

Please note that these awards aim to provide support for additional questions/experiments that were not originally part of the PhD project but have evolved during the PhD as initial data/results have been gathered. Therefore a case must be made in this respect.

For this round there is funding available for up to two competitive awards in total. The GOSH BRC award cannot be used to fund directly research using animals and cannot be used to fund costs of travel, equipment or extend the studentship, for example, by paying salary or stipend costs. Funds may be accessed from 01 September 2024 and must be fully spent by 31 March 2025.

1. If you'd like to apply, please read through the guidance document and complete the application form which can be found here: Guidance and Application Form
2. Applicants must complete the application form and submit one electronic copy as a word document (with e-signatures) to brc@gosh.nhs.uk by Friday 12 July.
3. Please contact brc@gosh.nhs.uk if you have any questions about the scheme.