Institutional Strategic Support Fund recipients announced
8 December 2011
Institutional Strategic Support Fund awards are being provided to universities that currently receive significant funding support from the Wellcome Trust. Each university has agreed to match the Trust's contribution with an equivalent investment of their own.
The awards offer financial support for universities to enhance institutional strategies for the biomedical sciences. They also provide incentives for institutions to support scientific progress, translation and interdisciplinary collaboration and to encourage greater efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in the stewardship of Wellcome Trust funding.
Institutions have been asked to identify how they could make best strategic use of the funding available and have chosen to use the fund in a variety of ways. These include salary support and seed funding for newly recruited senior research staff, personal support and research funding for early career researchers, support to encourage translational research, and support for public engagement and outreach activities.
The awards range from £500 000 to £1 500 000, depending on the level of current Trust grant income. The universities that have been awarded ISSF funding are:
- Cardiff University
- Imperial College London
- Kings College London
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- St George's University of London
- University College London
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Dundee
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Liverpool
- University of Manchester
- University of Newcastle
- University of Oxford
- University of St Andrews
- University of Sheffield
- University of York
Image credit: Wellcome Library, London.
