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Fellowships
Fellows are a valued part of our community. We invite enquiries from potential Fellowship applicants and offer support throughout the application process.
Fellowship Opportunities
Below is a list of 2025 Fellowship opportunities, arranged in chronological order by closing date. For more information about these schemes please click on the links to visit the funders' webpages. If you would like to talk to us about applying for a Fellowship and how we can support you please use the link above to get in touch.
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
This scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career for outstanding postdoctoral scientists and engineers who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities or health issues.
Closing date: Next round opens 28 October 2025
Website: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
Royal Society University Research Fellowships
These enable outstanding scientists to build an independent research career.
Closing date: Next round opens July 2026
Website: University Research Fellowship | Royal Society
MRC Career Development Award
Support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field. Applications are welcomed from across all areas of the MRC remit to improve human health. This may range from basic studies with relevance to mechanisms of disease, to translational and developmental clinical research.
Closing date: Next round opens June 2026
Website: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/career-development-award/
MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship
Applications are welcomed from across all areas of the MRC remit to improve human health. This may range from basic studies with relevance to mechanisms of disease, to translational and developmental clinical research.
Closing date: Next round opens June 2026
Website: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/senior-non-clinical-fellowship/
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
This scheme is for early career researchers, with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post, to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.
Closing date: 19 February 2026
Website: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships
European Commission Marie Curie Fellowships
Fellowships for researchers at all stages of their careers. Efforts are made to increase participation by women researchers, by encouraging equal opportunities in all 'Marie Curie Actions', by designing the actions to ensure that researchers can achieve an appropriate work/life balance and by facilitating resuming a research career after a break.
Website: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Closing date: Next call opens May 2026
About the BSI
We support research at the boundaries of the life sciences and other physical sciences including physics, mathematical sciences & computer science. Our research takes a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to fundamental biosciences processes and systems which have real-world applications e.g. in drug discovery or the development of novel materials. Our community is drawn from across scientific disciplinary boundaries and career stages. We are united by a commitment to collaborative research and to fostering a supportive research culture.
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