MRC Clinical research training fellowship

The funders wish to encourage high quality, innovative research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.

We will fund research in:

• animals
• humans
• plants.

The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics.

BBSRC and MRC are also keen to encourage proposals with a focus on:

• plant health
• coronaviruses
• other zoonotic pathogens.

Among the areas of particular interest for this funding opportunity are:

• the role of social influences on the susceptibility of individuals or populations
• multiway interactions between pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms and their mutual hosts
• the role of medical, agricultural or environmental practices on pathogen emergence and transmission
• emergence of pathogens from non-pathogenic populations
• host switching
• evolutionary dynamics in an ecological context such as disease control interventions and drug resistance
• animal and human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2
• plant health.

UKRI expects to fund two to four projects.

Find out more and apply online.