CRUK Clinical Future Leaders Fellowship

Fellowship funding over a maximum of seven years to support clinician scientists making the transition to research independence and establishing themselves as leaders in their field of cancer research.

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the UK’s leading cancer research charity and one of the main funders of cancer research across Europe. Its research strategy aims to invest £1.5 billion over five years to support research aligned with four main objectives – discover, detect, prevent and treat – to advance understanding of the fundamental biology of cancer and lead to new prevention measures, tests and treatments.

The CRUK research funding programme includes a wide range of fellowships and grants to support researchers, across all career stages, conducting clinical, pre-clinical, discovery and translational research to advance the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and potential cure, of all forms of cancer.

The CRUK Clinical Future Leaders Fellowship provides funding over a maximum of seven years to support clinician scientists making the transition to research independence and establishing themselves as leaders in their field of cancer research. The aim of the fellowship is to provide stable, flexible, long-term funding to enable promising clinician scientists to balance clinical training and duties while leading research at a university, hospital, medical school or other research institution in the UK. 

The thematic focus of the programme covers all areas of the CRUK funding remit, including basic biological research, pre-clinical studies, imaging research, radiotherapy research, engineering and physical sciences applied to cancer, population research and early detection research.