CLAHRC WM collaborators at Keele University have secured a prestigious award from Wellcome Trust to fund a PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians. The latest round of Wellcome PhD programme funding, builds on Wellcome’s five existing clinical PhD Programmes, and will being recruiting students this autumn to start in 2017. Information about how to apply to the programme will be available on the Keele University website in due course.

New programmes funded in the latest round of awards are as follows:

· Wellcome 4ward North Clinical PhD Academy - University of Manchester, University of Leeds, University of Newcastle and University of Sheffield

· Wellcome GW4 Clinical Academic Training Programme - University of Bristol, Cardiff University, University of Exeter

· Wellcome Imperial Immunity, Inflammation, Infection and Informatics (4i) Clinician Scientist Programme - Imperial College London

· Wellcome Clinical PhD programme in Global Health Research - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; University College London; King's College London; Queen Mary, University of London; St Georges' University of London, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

· Wellcome PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians - Keele University, Cambridge University, Oxford University and Southampton University

· Wellcome Clinical PhD Programme in Cancer Research - The Institute of Cancer Research, London

· Wellcome/Health Research Board National Programme for Clinician Scientists - Trinity College Dublin; University College Dublin; National University of Ireland, Galway; University College Cork; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Queens University Belfast

Existing programmes

· Wellcome PhD Programme for Clinicians - University of Oxford

· Wellcome PhD Programme for Clinicians - University of Cambridge

· Edinburgh Clinical Academic Training (ECAT) - University of Edinburgh

· Wellcome PhD Programme for Clinicians - University College London

· Health Priorities in Resource-Limited Settings - University of Liverpool

Find out more about the PhD programmes at: https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/our-new-clinical-phd-programmes