{"id":3281,"date":"2016-10-14T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2016-10-31T18:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:09:46","slug":"wellcome-trust-institute-strategic-support-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2016\/10\/14\/wellcome-trust-institute-strategic-support-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellcome Trust Institute Strategic Support Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The College has been awarded \u00a35M from Wellcome for the next five years, continuing the Institute Strategic Support Fund which has been instrumental in supporting <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3282\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2016\/10\/wellcome-logo-black.jpg\" alt=\"wellcome-logo-black\" \/>biomedical research across the College over the past 5 years.\u00a0 The scheme has previously funded numerous internal funding streams targeting the enhancement of multidisciplinary research, the support of early career researchers, strategic initiatives enhancing support for priority themes and public engagement activities. Through strategic allocation of \u00a37.5M funding since 2011\/2012, the scheme has supported more than 380 investigators through 185 awards across the College and in turn leveraged a further \u00a353M in follow-on funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016\/2017, the ISSF scheme will support Clinical Research Careers through Global Health Fellowships and Clinician Researchers schemes and non-clinical researchers through Faculty Fellowships.\u00a0 The scheme will also support key initiatives to promote collaboration and will ensure the College is supporting an inclusive research environment. All opportunities for funding will be advertised on the internal funding opportunities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0ahUKEwin2ZKozM7PAhWEVxoKHZeKBboQFggcMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imperial.ac.uk%2Fresearch-and-innovation%2Fresearch-office%2Ffunder-information%2Ffunding-opportunities%2Finternal-funding-opportunities%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNFDl7ADWtQVlsoHOIsjAY2Z1AOUVA&amp;bvm=bv.135258522,d.d2s\"><span class=\"s2\">webpage<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Dr Sarah Wagstaffe<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Head of Research Strategy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Faculty of Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College has been awarded \u00a35M from Wellcome for the next five years, continuing the Institute Strategic Support Fund which has been instrumental in supporting biomedical research across the College over the past 5 years.\u00a0 The scheme has previously funded numerous internal funding streams targeting the enhancement of multidisciplinary research, the support of early career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7666,491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-2","category-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}