2014 NIHR Senior Investigators announced

Over half of the newly awarded NIHR Senior Investigators announced this week are researchers from UCL, including many members of the BRC faculty.

Altogether the NIHR made 16 new appointments including Professors Lyn Chitty, Martin Birchall, John Deanfield, Stuart Taylor, David Lomas, Amit Nathwani and Judith Stephenson - all associated with the BRC.

Throughout this process, the BRC took a coordinated approach to identifying and supporting applicants and engaged with the deans.

Re-appointments included BRC programme directors Professor’s Nick Wood and David Linch; and Professor Nick Fox.

Senior Investigators are fundamental to the formation of the NIHR Faculty and represent the country’s most outstanding leaders of clinical and applied health and social care research. They receive an award of £15,000 a year as a personal discretionary fund, and attract additional NIHR Research Capability Funding. This is then recycled straight back into flexible research expenditure across our UCLH/UCL partnership.

The BRC is allocating resources to support future applicants for Senior Investigator awards by providing help with the process of completing applications – the next round of applications is expected to be launched in May.

Full details of all new Senior Investigators are available in the Senior Investigators Directory.