We’ve been running our prestigious Research Training Fellowship scheme for more than 45 years. In this time we have funded more than 180 fellowships with a total value of over £14 million.
The scheme supports and develops promising doctors and researchers early in their careers: as Research Training Fellows, these high-fliers carry out a key piece of research to help children and undertake training to develop their research expertise.
The impact our Research Training Fellows make is great. Their work has led to patient and healthcare sector benefits:
- Influencing policy and guidelines
- Improving clinical practice and patient care on topics such as vaccine use, epilepsy, pregnancy management, preterm birth and developing diagnostic techniques
- Developing treatments for life-threatening and life-limiting conditions.
We’re proud that some of the leading children’s researchers today were supported with a Research Training Fellowship from Action.
I received three year Research Training Fellowship funding which allowed me to complete my PhD. This was my academic foundation; it set me on the road to my academic and clinical career.
Professor Bobby Gaspar is an expert in paediatrics and immunology at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London.
Professor Gaspar was awarded an Action fellowship in the early 1990s. He studied two life-threatening immunodeficiency disorders, which occur when the body’s natural immune system is absent or not working properly. At that time, the conventional treatment for these disorders was bone marrow transplant, which carries risk if the donor match is poor. Professor Gaspar’s pioneering work has led to new gene therapy treatments which are now saving children’s lives.
Current Research Training Fellows
Dr Nandaki Keshavan
Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome: developing a new treatment
3 September 2018 – 20 September 2022
Mr Michael Mather
Searching for new ways to treat ear infections
1 February 2020 – 31 January 2023
Mr Tom Jovic
Microtia: improving surgery for children with small or missing ears
1 July 2019 – 30 April 2022
Dr Michael Eyre
NMDAR-antibody encephalitis: using cutting-edge brain scanning techniques to personalise treatment for a rare brain disease
1 March 2021 – 29 February 2024
Dr Sharanya S Nagendran
Peanut allergy – improving the safety and effectiveness of a new treatment
16 August, 2021 – 7 October, 2024
Please read before applying
Research Training Fellowship Guidelines and Outline Form
Applications should be of the highest quality as the scheme is very competitive.