Published on Tue, 21/04/2015 - 12:23
On Wednesday 28 July 2010, Dr John Williams from the Wellcome Trust delivered a presentation detailing their Strategic Plan 2010 – 2020 and the New Investigator Awards and Senior Investigator Awards. Applications for the new scheme open on 1 October 2010 and have a closing deadline of 22 November 2010. The first round of Expert Review for the new schemes will take place during February 2011.
The presentation highlighted a number of changes to these schemes compared with the traditional ones. To download the presentation slides go to: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/documents/local/presentations/Wellcome_Trust_Summary.pdf
Q&As about the Investigator Awards can be found here: www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/investigator-awards/Q-and-A/index.htm
The Research Office are currently in close contact with the Trust to ensure that our administrative processes are appropriately amended to support these schemes and we will be providing further information on this over the next two months. For further details about the new awards go to: www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Investigator-Awards/index.htm