The NIHR has announced its latest cohort of Senior Investigators across a breadth of diverse professional backgrounds. The group reflects the wide range of expertise shaping health and care research across the UK.
Each year, the NIHR appoints a new cohort of Senior Investigators to serve a four-year term. They receive funding to support their research leadership activities, as well as acting as mentors and role models for early-career researchers and helping to develop research capacity and talent in underrepresented groups, specialities and geographic areas.
Senior Investigators are among the most outstanding and influential researchers funded by NIHR. They are recognised for the quality and global reach of their research. They also help mentor the next generation, strengthen research culture and embed inclusion.
The Oxford researchers appointed in this latest cohort are:
Newly appointed:
- Professor Paul Leeson - Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- Professor Rachel Upthegrove - Department of Psychiatry
- Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh - Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
- Professor Ly-Mee Yu - Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Reappointed:
- Professor Najib Rahman, Nuffield Department of Medicine
- Professor Jonathan Rees, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences
- Professor Catherine Pope, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
They join a College of NIHR Senior Investigators that now stands at approximately 200 active members.
Read more about the Senior Investigators award on the NIHR website