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Wellcome Trust ISSF call deadline 30 January

Research

The first Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) call for 2014-15 is now open, and welcomes proposals on a broad range of themes from any department in the University. Research projects must fall within the remit of the Wellcome Trust, as well as the strategic remit of biomedical research at Oxford.

The deadline is Friday 30 January 2015. 

Read more on the ISSF website

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