The John Vane Academy

John Vane Bursary Scheme

About the Scheme

Have you found a training opportunity that would expand your skillset?  We may be able to help fund it! 

This annual scheme is intended to enable early career researchers to extend their repertoire.  Up to £1,000 will be made available to the successful applicant(s) for travel and training to develop their own expertise or to learn new techniques.  Previous successful applicants have:

• Participated in an extracellular vesicle workshop at University College Dublin
• Learned expansion microscopy in a lab at the Yale Cooperative Center of Excellence in Hematology
• Joined a Proteomics Bioinformatics training course in Cambridge
• Developed analysis skills to interrogate single cell sequencing data through training at the University of Edinburgh
• Attended a bioinformatics training program delivered by the British Society of Immunology

Eligibility

To enter this competition, you must:

• be a current member of the John Vane Academy (JVA)*
• be an early-career researcher**
• study or work at one of the institutes within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London AND
• be primarily involved in one or more of the following fields of research:  cardiovascular disease, inflammation or endocrine disorders (meeting WHRF's charitable purpose to support medical research in these specific areas)

* JVA membership is free.  For details and to download an application form, please visit the JVA membership page HERE.

** The JVA defines ‘early-career researchers’ as PhD students and postdoctoral scientists within five years of the award of their PhD or within eight years of their primary medical degree (exclusive of significant career breaks).

The deadline for this year's John Vane Bursary award has passed.  We expect to run the competition again in Winter 2026, so check back here for updates.  Details will also be sent in FMD and institute e-newsletters so keep an eye out for those emails!

Questions about this award can be sent to the WHRF Programmes Manager, Mrs Amanda Craddock, at a.craddock@qmul.ac.uk.