As members and fellows of the RCP you are entitled to a host of exclusive benefits, including access to our funding and awards opportunities.

We fund fellowships, research grants, prizes, lectureships and bursaries to help support, promote and celebrate research activity.

Our awards cover a range of specialties and are open to members at varying grades.

Open funding and awards

RCP virtual poster competition 2025

Opening date: 29 March 2025. Closing date: 21 May 2025.

RCP medical student elective bursaries

Closing date: 18 May 2025

Graham Bull prize in clinical science and Goulstonian lectureship

Closing date: Monday 7 April 2025

Teale essay prize for trainees

Closing date: 9 March 2025

Whitney-Wood scholarship

Closing date: 11 November 2024

Lewis Thomas Gibbon Jenkins of Briton Ferry fellowship

Closed

Lectures

Covering a broad range of topics, these lectures are amongst the college’s most longstanding historic events.

Lady Estelle Wolfson lecture in translational medicine

Founded by a bequest from Lady Estelle Wolfson to endow an annual lecture on translational medicine, this talk makes up part of our endowed lectures series. Closing date: 9 February 2025.

Linacre lecture

Named after the Royal College of Physicians' first president, Thomas Linacre (1460–1524). Closed.

Turner-Warwick lectures

The RCP's prestigious lecturer scheme for trainee physicians celebrating the life and achievements of Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, our first female president.

Milroy lecture on state medicine and public health

The Milroy lecture on state medicine and public health was founded by a bequest from Dr Gavin Milroy FRCP to endow an annual lecture on state medicine and public hygiene. Closed.

Get in touch

To find out more about our awards, funding opportunities or lectures, or to be notified when the application window opens, please contact fundingandawards@rcp.ac.uk or call 0203 075 1785.

Funding and awards