Dr Rahul Kalla at the University of Glasgow has been awarded a prestigious Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellowship, worth £1.5m over the next five years to support his research. During the fellowship, Dr Kalla plans to focus on inflammatory bowel...

Eleven new grant awards have been awarded by the Kennedy Trust in 2025, totaling £2.6m over the next 5 years. Five early career researchers have been funded through the Trust’s new Transition Fellowship scheme, which is designed to support postdoctoral...

Following a highly competitive call, we are delighted to announce that Dr Tetsuo Hasegawa at the University of Cambridge has been awarded a prestigious Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellowship of £1.9m over five years. The Senior Research Fellowship scheme was...

We are delighted to announce that The Kennedy Trust and Medical Research Council (MRC) are co-funding a new Daphne Jackson Fellowship, supporting Dr Kate Coldwell. Kate will be starting her Fellowship on the 30th July 2024 at the Kennedy Institute...

Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow Dr Elizabeth (Lizzy) C. Rosser, based at University College London, has been awarded a research prize from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine for her work on eye damage in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). JIA...

Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow Professor Adam Croft has been appointed as the new Versus Arthritis Chair of Rheumatology and Head of the Rheumatology Research group at the University of Birmingham. The appointment recognises Professor Croft’s wealth of experience in...

VEXAS syndrome is an autoinflammatory condition that leads to fevers, general inflammation, skin rash, anaemia and organ damage. It can affect almost any organ in the body, result in bone marrow failure and it is associated with reduced survival. A...

The Kennedy Trust is delighted to welcome two new Fellows onto its prestigious Senior Research Fellowship scheme. Following a highly competitive recruitment process, Dr Sinisa Savic at the University of Leeds and Dr Elizabeth Rosser at University College London have...

Applications are invited for a Kennedy Trust sponsored three year Daphne Jackson Fellowship to be held at any UK university or research establishment. The Fellowship is intended for a scientist wishing to return to research into any clinical or pre-clinical...

Kennedy Trust researchers Professors Chris Buckley and Mark Coles, both at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, have been awarded fellowships as part of the Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship Programme. The programme, established in 2015, will provide them with an opportunity...