Junior Research Fellow awarded funding for Oxford Vaccine Group Project

Junior Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine Young Chan Kim, was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship in January of this year, and has now also been successful in receiving HIC-Vac pump-priming funding (MRC/Wellcome Trust, FEC = £50,000) as a Principal Investigator for a research project at the Oxford Vaccine Group with Prof Sir Andrew Pollard during October 2022 - March 2023. 

Of the award, Dr Young Chan Kim says: " I would like to sincerely thank you all for the amazing support that I (and my family) have been receiving from the College during my two years of Junior Research Fellowship. I am hoping to continue to make positive contributions to the College as a JRF and a College Advisor for DPhil/MSc students this academic year (2022-2023) and hopefully for many more years to come."

The Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship offers recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers. As a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Young will receive the total grant of £300,000 (£0.3m) to expand his research horizons and develop his scientific independence so that he can become a leader in the field of vaccinology. For his fellowship, he will continue his research on structure-based vaccinology for arthropod-borne viruses at the Jenner Institute under the sponsorship of Professor Sir Adrian Hill.

Young is currently a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Wolfson College, a Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Somerville College, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) and a doctor in internal medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowships

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