When: The call for postdoctoral clinical fellows with their own funding in place is open all year. The call for Crick-funded fellowships is usually open from mid-March until late April.
Who: This opportunity would suit talented and motivated postdoctoral clinical fellows who are passionate about research and show outstanding potential for continuing a career in academic medicine. Applicants should have completed a medical degree, or equivalent clinical professional qualification, and hold, or be about to hold, a research PhD. Applications are welcome from all medical and surgical specialties.
Apply: Interested applicants, for both independently and Crick-funded fellowships, should apply directly through the Crick’s website.
More information: These fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral research experience within a Crick research group. The scheme offers two routes: a fully-funded fellowship that includes salary support, and a route for clinicians who already have external salary funding, such as through an NIHR or university-funded Academic Clinical Lectureship (ACL), or another NHS- or university funded post. For clinicians holding an ACL, this route enables them to continue their lectureship while undertaking research at the Crick.
The fellowships aim to:
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Foster long-term clinical links and collaborations.
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Provide clinicians with a postdoctoral extension of their research experience, and with scientific networking, training and career development opportunities.
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Provide a platform from which fellows may apply for external funding, e.g. clinician scientist fellowships, to be held at the Crick or elsewhere.
Fellows at the Crick are embedded in a vibrant multidisciplinary research community of more than 1,000 scientists carrying out research to improve our understanding of health and disease. They benefit from an extensive seminar programme including Crick lectures, Interest Group seminars and Symposia (information of which can be found on the Crick website) from clinical academic networking opportunities, and from comprehensive training and career development activities including technical training via our Science Technology Platforms (full details on the Crick website), science communication and grant writing.
AI and Machine Learning Clinical Fellows
The content on this page is for clinicians interested in applying. For academics interested in hosting a fellow and/or undertaking supervision duties, please visit the Supervision section of this site.
When: Applications for this programme will open in mid-October, with interviews in February.
Who: This opportunity would suit talented and motivated clinicians who are passionate about research, have a strong interest in AI and machine learning, and what to and want to integrate computational and machine learning approaches into their clinical academic careers.
Apply: Applications are made through the Crick’s website.
More information: The Crick’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Clinical Fellow programme combines formal MSc-level training in AI, machine learning and related computational approaches with either a doctoral (PhD) or a postdoctoral (post-PhD career development) research fellowship based at the Crick.
The programme equips clinicians to lead data‑driven, clinically meaningful research at the intersection of AI/ML, biomedicine and clinical practice.
For full details on the programme and the recruitment process, please see the Crick’s AI and ML Clinical Fellows website