Investigator Award statistics

Here you can find general information about the applications and awards made during the first eight rounds of our biomedical science Investigator Awards. This includes application and award numbers and success rates for New Investigator Awards and Senior Investigator Awards, as well as data on the age, gender and location of applicants and recipients.

Some high-level findings for these first eight rounds are:

• We received 644 applications for Investigator Awards from 672 applicants; which includes 28 joint applications.
• A total of 139 awards have been made: 29 New Investigator Awards and 110 Senior Investigator Awards.
• The Expert Review Groups shortlisted 38 per cent of applicants; of these, 55 per cent were successful following interview by the Interview Panel (figure 1).

Figure 1: Investigator Award application and award numbers

• 20 per cent of applicants were female; 17 per cent of award holders are female.
• The average age of a New Investigator at the time of award is 40 years, and that of a Senior Investigator is 52. For comparison, the average age of a project grant awardee over the previous five years has been 47.
• The value of awards made ranges from £0.5 million to £4.4m, with durations ranging from three to seven years.
• Awards have been made addressing each of our five major challenges. The distribution of awards reflects the number of applications received in each challenge area (figure 2).

Figure 2: Investigator Awards by challenge area

• Awards have been made to researchers in 32 different UK institutions and one overseas institution (figure 3).

Figure 3: Location of current Investigator Award holders