We are the leading funder of general medical research in the Wessex region: that is, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Dorset, South Wiltshire and the Channel Islands. Over a period of some 35 years we have raised in excess of £19 million in voluntary donations and this has been applied by our Trustees to support critical medical research projects.

Our Innovation Fund aims to give critical start-up grants to early career researchers whilst our PhD studentships both nurture new talent and encourage and enable more established scientists to pursue new avenues of research. We are proud of our record of supporting the development of young scientists and we are able to point to a number of today's leading medical researchers who started their career with one of our grants.

However, it is vital that we are able to maintain the flow of young talent otherwise the rapid progress in the advancement of medical science seen in recent years would quickly evaporate.

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