BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships
Supports early-career United Kingdom bioscientists with fellowships that build independent innovation leadership.
The BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships (renamed in 2024 from BBSRC Discovery Fellowships) are personal career awards for early-career researchers who hold a doctorate or equivalent and have demonstrated a trajectory toward independent research leadership within the biological sciences. The scheme runs annually; the 2026 round opened 11 February 2026 and closed 22 April 2026, with the next round …
Personal career fellowships supporting investigator-led, hypothesis-driven discovery across the full BBSRC bioscience remit for early-career researchers with demonstrated independence.
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