Career Foundation Fellowships

Chair and Co-Chair of the Fellowship Panel:

• Professor Michelle Garrett, Current Chair of our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Kent, UK
• Dr Stephanie Dougan, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunobiology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA

Eligible applicants include:

• early career post-doctoral researchers who can be clinical and non-clinical
• with limited experience (e.g. final year PhD students) in pancreatic cancer research and are beginning to develop their own research ideas and contribute to the field
• with experience of and contribution to pancreatic cancer research, but have yet to demonstrate the ability to develop and deliver their own independent research ideas
• with some experience of pancreatic cancer research who are re-entering the field following a career break
• with some experience and who have made contributions to other relevant research fields and/or disciplines for whom this will be their first application in pancreatic cancer

Having engaged with other funders (including NIHR, UKRI and Cancer Research UK), your eligibility to apply for their fellowship awards should NOT be affected by holding a Pancreatic Cancer UK Career Foundation Fellowship award.

• Fellowships open for applications: Monday 18th November 2024
• Application deadline: Monday 17th February 2025
• Interviews: June 2025
• Funding decisions: August 2025

All applicants are strongly encouraged to refer to the Guidance for Applicants and FAQs before completing their application.

All potential applicants and their Host Institutions should ensure that they have also reviewed Pancreatic Cancer UK’s Terms and Conditions, which set out the standard terms applicable to Career Foundation Fellowships funded by Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Applicants can undertake a proportion of their Fellowship in another (UK based or non-UK based) Institute of a named Collaborator however, Pancreatic Cancer UK will contract with one UK-based Host Institution only and it will be the responsibility of the Host Institution to agree subcontracts with the other Institutions involved in the Fellowship. Our experience is that this subcontracting takes a significant amount of time, so we advise you to coordinate discussion with the Institutes involved as soon as possible as you are developing your proposal. Applicants undertaking a proportion of their Fellowship at another Institute with a named Collaborator will also be required to include a signed letter of support from the Finance Department of the Institute.

Applicants should be aware that their proposals will also be reviewed by people with lived experience of pancreatic cancer and are therefore strongly encouraged to demonstrate how they have already/intend to involve people with lived experience in the development and delivery of their work. At Pancreatic Cancer UK, we have a fantastic Research Involvement Network (RIN) made up of over 500 individuals that have been affected by pancreatic cancer including patients, carers, loved ones and survivors. They give valuable insight and help to ensure that research is centred around the needs of patients. If you would like members of RIN to help shape your application you can find out more about how to do this here. Please get in touch with the Research Team as soon as possible if you would like to discuss this further or if you have any questions.

To apply, please complete the Fellowship Proposal Template and submit as one single pdf document containing all relevant appendices to research@pancreaticcancer.org.uk before the application deadline.

All applications for funding will be subject to a rigorous review process as detailed in our guidance notes for applicants. Final funding recommendations will be made by our international Career Foundation Fellowship Panel.

More details on the review process can be found in our guidance notes for applicants.

Fellowship Proposal Template

Guidance for Applicants

Our Research Ambition

FAQs

Terms and Conditions

No Cost Extension Policy