Institutional Strategic Support Fund
Our Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) enables universities in the UK and Ireland to invest in areas that are of mutual strategic importance to Wellcome and the individual institutions.
Our Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) enables universities in the UK and Ireland to invest in areas that are of mutual strategic importance to Wellcome and the individual institutions. These are within and across medical and clinical sciences, public health, social sciences and medical humanities.
The funds can be used in a variety of different ways, for example to support:
- early-career researchers
- interdisciplinary research
- equality and diversity initiatives
- public engagement
- translational science initiatives
- inter-institutional initiatives.
Thirty universities have been awarded funding from October 2016.
£5 million
Imperial College London
Professor Jonathan Weber
King’s College London
Professor Simon Howell and Professor Tom Foulkes
University College London
Professor Geraint Rees
University of Cambridge
Professor Paul Lehner
University of Oxford
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg
£3.5 million to £3.75 million
Cardiff University
Professor Kim Graham
Newcastle University
Professor Derek Mann
University of Bristol
Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill
University of Dundee
Professor Doreen Cantrell
University of Edinburgh
Professor Jonathan Seckl
University of Glasgow
Professor Iain McInnes
£2.5 million
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Professor Dame Anne Mills
University of Birmingham
Professor Paul Moss
University of Liverpool
Professor Malcolm Jackson
University of Manchester
Professor Mike Dixon
University of York
Professor Deborah Smith and Professor Alex Wade
£1.25 million to £1.5 million
Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Nick Keep
University of Aberdeen
Professor Gary Macfarlane
University of Exeter
Professor Nick Talbot
University of Leeds
Professor Mark Harris
University of Leicester
Professor Andrew Fry and Professor Mark Jobling
University of St Andrews
Professor Malcolm White
University of Sussex
Professor Laurence Pearl
Up to £1 million
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Professor Steve Ward
Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Alan Stitt
St George’s University of London
Professor Julian Ma
Trinity College Dublin
Professor Mani Ramaswami (this funding was awarded in partnership with Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Health Research Board).
University College Dublin
Professor William Gallagher (this funding was awarded in partnership with Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Health Research Board).
University of Nottingham
Professor David Brook
University of Warwick
Professor Mohan Balasubramanian and Professor Andrew McAinsh
The awards are for up to five years, subject to review during the third year. They are matched by an equal contribution from the university.