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CRUK Clinical Future Leaders Fellowships

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This fellowship aims to support clinician scientists to transition to research independence and leadership in their field of cancer research.

These long-term fellowships provide talented clinician scientists with the flexibility and freedom to establish themselves as clinical academic leaders.

Clinical service commitments

You’ll need to remain clinically active during your fellowship. We want to ensure fellows have sufficient protected research time while balancing clinical training and duties required for your speciality.

We expect that you spend no more than 20-40% of your time or two to four Programmed Activities on clinical activity. We expect the higher number of clinical sessions to be particularly relevant for individuals in craft specialities.

Your research proposal should ideally link to your clinical specialism.

Host institutions

All our fellows are hosted in UK universities, medical schools, hospitals or research institutes. Most UK university departments are eligible, but please contact us before applying to check your host institution is eligible. You can be hosted by one of our institutes if your salary is not core funded (as a group leader) at the time of application.

Published on 2 February 2026.

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