Lee Placito Medical Fund: Research Fellowship in gastro-intestinal disease, including gastrointestinal cancer

The Lee Placito Medical Fund was created in 1990 to further research into gastrointestinal (GI) disease and GI cancers. Since its inception the fund has supported a wide range of projects delivering ground-breaking findings and providing career development support for outstanding GI biologists and clinicians.

In this round we are seeking applications for three year non-clinical or clinical research fellowships (maximum £110,000 per annum). Applications should tackle the molecular pathogenesis of GI disorders encompassing GI developmental disease, infectious, inflammatory disease or cancer. Proposals that take innovative approaches to deliver fundamental molecular insights are of particular interest.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications should include:

• A short cover letter
• CV (two pages max.) 
• A research proposal including: summary, background, aims, methods, ethical status, experimental plan, timetable and justification for sums requested. Eight pages maximum excluding references. Minimum font size 11 pt
• A single-paragraph lay summary
• A letter of support from the PI who is sponsoring the application
• A letter from the Departmental Administrator confirming that facilities are available to undertake the proposed research. 

These should be sent by email as a single pdf document to Anne Farmer at the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit at the University of Oxford - anne.farmer@imm.ox.ac.uk

Deadline

Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, June 30 2025.