ERS/SPLF Joint Fellowship

First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)

Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)

About

Outline

The ERS/Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française (SPLF) Joint Fellowship from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) supports early-career researchers and clinicians to carry out basic, translational, or clinical research projects in France. Applicants must be ERS members, residents in Europe (except in France), or overseas. Europe as defined by the World Health Organization .

Applications are open to candidates of all ages, targeting researchers with at least 2 years of advanced research experience. Applications from researchers who have taken a career break, including, but not limited to, parental leave, periods working outside research, and experiencing unemployment, are encouraged.

• Applicants should be actively engaged or must have experience in the respiratory field.
• Applicants must be postgraduates holding a university degree (PhD or MD-PhD) in any field related to respiratory medicine. Applicants should have graduated with a PhD or MD-PhD at the time of the application deadline.
• Applicants without a PhD or MD-PhD degree at the time of the application deadline are required to possess at a minimum an MD or MSc and prove 2 years of completed full-time research experience.
• Applicants currently in a postgraduate degree (PhD, MD-PhD and equivalent) are not eligible.
• Postgraduate scientists such as immunologists, biologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, biophysicists, chemists, etc. involved in respiratory science, are entitled to apply for the LTRF.
• Qualified healthcare professionals (non-MD) working in respiratory health/medicine (nurses, physiotherapists, respiratory function technologists, allied respiratory professionals, etc.) are entitled to apply for an LTRF. At a minimum, applicants should hold an MSc or equivalent degree at the time of application and prove 2 years of completed full-time research experience.

Applicants must not have worked or resided in the host institution or host country in the last 12 months.

The fellowship should last from 1 to 3 months.

Applications open August 1 and close on October 1, 2026.

Organisation

Organisation name Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française (SPLF) Organisation Country France More Information https://www.scientifyresearch.org/grant/respiratory-medicine-research-internati…

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