PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals
Funds three years of PhD salary and research costs for UK-based health professionals.
Wellcome Trust's PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals fund three years of PhD salary and research costs for UK-based registered health professionals -- doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, dentists, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, clinical psychologists, midwives and more -- who want to build a career as an academic health professional. Twelve university-hosted programmes make up …
These programmes are for registered health professionals -- doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, dentists, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, clinical psychologists, midwives and more -- who want to build a career as an academic health professional. Twelve separate university-hosted programmes across the UK each recruit their own PhD fellows, with individual eligibility requirements on top of Wellcome's own criteria.
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