The MRC Provides Support Through a Broad Portfolio of Personal Award Schemes for Talented

MRC fellowships enable outstanding individuals to undertake challenging projects in excellent research and training environments. An MRC award is there to enable you to do something truly out of the ordinary in training and developing you as a potential research leader.

Applications are invited for:

Special Research Training Fellowships in Biomedical Informatics (computational biology, neuroinformatics and health informatics)

The MRC has identified the application of informatics as an area of strategic importance to health and medical research. This special training fellowship is aimed at developing outstanding individuals who are seeking to move into the application of mathematical, statistical and computational methods to biomedical research problems.

Who can apply?

The fellowships are aimed at those with non-biological, biological, non-clinical or clinical backgrounds acquire new skillsand to apply them to research in biomedical informatics. Applicants are expected to demonstrate an excellent track-record relative to their time in research.

We encourage applications from individualswith advanced training in the physical or mathematical sciences, or in information technology, who wish to apply their expertise to biomedical problems. In particular, applications are encouraged in imaging informatics.

This is a postdoctoral award and the majority of successful applicants are within six years of the completion of their PhD. For more detailed eligibility information visit the Bioinformatics fellowship webpage our website.

What funding is provided?

An MRC special research training fellowship in biomedical informatics is usually awarded for three years or occasionally up to four years when there is special justification.The fellowship provides the fellow’s personal salary, research training support costs, annual travel costs, and all other relevant costs under Full Economic Costs. Salaries for clinical applicants will be payable up to, but not including, NHS consultant level..All proposals must include a well-specified formal training element in addition to a research project. The award offers an opportunity to enhance the research training through placement in an overseas research centre, a second UK research centre or in UK industry.

The deadline for applications for the above scheme is 4pm on Friday 24th September 2010.

As part of the Council’s Equal Opportunities policy, consideration will be given to applicants returning to science following a career break. There are no age limits for any of our schemes and all fellowships may be held part-time to accommodate domestic responsibilities.

Further information on this and other funding opportunities provided by the MRC, can be found on our website at and additional details can be requested by e-mail from

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