The Chief Scientist Office and Relaunch of CSO Grant and Fellowship Funding Schemes

CSO are part of the Scottish Government Health Directorates. The vision of the CSO is to support and increase the level of high-quality health research conducted in Scotland. This is for the health and financial benefits of our population so that Scotland is recognised globally as a ‘come to place’ for health science.

The work of CSO encompasses awarding grants and fellowships, funding research units, supporting all research in NHSScotland through NRS (NHS Research Scotland), contributing to UK-wide research programmes managed by NETSCC, encouraging industry funded research and fostering a research culture in NHSScotland.

The CSO has recently reviewed its grant schemes and will now be providing a number of different funding steams to directly support research in Scotland. Dr Tom Barlow, Senior Research Manger will present on the work of the CSO in Scotland and the grant and fellowship schemes now available through CSO.