The John, Margaret, Alfred and Stewart Sim Fellowship provides funding for any graduates in Medicine and Science to research the causes or treatment of depression.
Applicants may request funding for up to three years, with a total cost of up to £115,000, including on-costs and essential research expenses. FEC will not be funded. The College also welcomes applications linking long-term/chronic conditions with depression.
Eligibility
The College is keen that this fund fosters mental health research and the academic careers of early or intermediate researchers. There is no geographical or organisational restriction on the use of funding.
Application and Selection Process
Applications are not currently being accepted.
Current recipients:
2019-2020 Dr Filippo Queirazza, University of Glasgow – fMRI signatures of depression and response to antidepressants in first episode psychosis
2019-2020 Dr Laura Lyall, University of Glasgow – Understanding how sleep and circadian rhythm disruption influence depression and comorbidity between depression and cardiometabolic disease
2017-20 Dr Calum Moulton, King's College London - Cognitive and somatic subtypes of depression in type 2 diabetes: comparing their correlates, associated complications and targets for treatment
2017-20 Mr Joey Ward, University of Glasgow - Towards precision medicine for depressive disorders
2018-21 Dr Sameer Jauhar, King's College London - A PET study of psychotic depression, and comparison to other psychotic illnesses
2018-20 Dr Ally Rooney, University of Edinburgh - Comparing the behavioural, functional, cellular, and molecular consequences of single, versus repeated, electroconvulsive shocks
Previous recipients:
2015-18 Dr Heather Whalley, University of Edinburgh - Neurobiology of Depression: Stratified by Genetic Loading for Schizophrenia
2005-2009 Dr Ben Pickard – Investigating the NPAS3 gene, a candidate for genetic susceptibility to depression
1999-2003 Dr Gerome Breen – Pharmacogenics of Lithium Response in Affective Disorders
1999-2002 Dr David Brown – Elucidation of the molecular effect of serotonin (5HT) upon hippocampal neurones and its relevance to depressive illness
Further Information
Please contact standards@rcpe.ac.uk
