The Laurent Fellowship for Respiratory Health

Overview of the Laurent Fellowship for Respiratory Health

The Laurent Fellowship for Respiratory Health started as a tribute to Geoff Laurent, a globally renowned respiratory health researcher.

The Fellowships are aimed at developing and expanding Geoff Laurent’s life-long passions for meaningful research, exchange of knowledge, and ability to lead academic partnerships – in particular, the universities he was most involved with: UWA and UCL.

There are two fellowship schemes: The Early to Mid-Career Laurent Fellowship in Respiratory Health and the Senior Laurent Fellowship in Respiratory Health.

Both Laurent Fellowships will be offered annually and sufficient to support travel costs, living expenses and accommodation and, in the case of the Early to Mid-Career Fellowship, laboratory consumables.

Early to Mid-Career Laurent Fellowship

This Fellowship represents an opportunity for an applicant to undertake respiratory health research in an internationally recognised centre of excellence which, in this scheme, involves laboratories in the highly ranked Department of Respiratory Medicine at UCL. The Fellowship will support travel costs, living expenses and accommodation as well as support for laboratory consumables. Funding will be available for a period of between one and three months.

This Fellowship is designed to provide early to mid-career scientists with the opportunity to experience research in an internationally recognised centre of excellence which, in this scheme, involves laboratories in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at University College London.

The successful Early to Mid-Career Fellow will take up the position in one of the Department of Respiratory Medicine’s Laboratories at UCL. Presently, there are three large centres likely to be offering hosting opportunities for a candidate and include:

The primary contact for the Laurent Fellowship at UCL will be Professor Rachel Chambers, with whom the possibility of a laboratory placement should be discussed well before submitting an application.

Details of a suitable project and the laboratory host will be required for any application. To contact Professor Chambers, please email Nicole Halliday at nicole.halliday@ucl.ac.uk.

The Early to Mid-Career Laurent Fellowship in Respiratory Health is open to researchers with a doctoral degree awarded within eight years of an application being made and who are either:

currently employed at UWA,
adjunct staff in Centres associated with UWA-affiliated medical research institutes or
have recently completed their doctoral degree in respiratory health research at UWA.

Senior Laurent Fellowship in Respiratory Health

The Senior Laurent Fellowship in Respiratory Health is designed to encourage the establishment of viable research collaborations between senior respiratory health scientists at UWA and its Centres within affiliated institutes and those at UCL. Funding will be available for a period of between two to four weeks to enable a successful applicant to travel from UWA to UCL or vice versa. Senior Researchers at either institution will be eligible to apply.

Applications

Applications for 2023 are now closed.

The Laurent Fellowships for Respiratory Health are made possible by a group of dedicated friends and longstanding scientific colleagues of Geoff Laurent’s who wished to ensure that his legacy will not be forgotten. Further information on the history and purpose of the Fellowships can be found here.