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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The number of beneficiaries and the amount invested in 2024/25 for each programme are listed in the Table
below. The total number of funded beneficiaries (career awards/grants and scholarships), including new intake
for the 2024/25 reporting period, exceeded the annual target of 130 by 69. The total performance for indicator
4.1.1 is 199.

Number of
Career Award/Grant Programme Category beneficiaries Amount invested
SAMRC Mid-Career Scientists Scientists (PI) 8 12,000,000.00
SAMRC Research Capacity Development Initiative Scientists (PI) 16 5,430,000.00
Post-doctoral Fellows 8 2,800,000.00
PhD 17 2,700,000.00
SAMRC Extramural Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme Post-doctoral Fellows 10 3,500,000.00
SAMRC Intramural Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme Post-doctoral Fellows 16 4,277,082.67
SAMRC Clinician Post-doctoral Career Development Award Clinician post-PhD 1 550,000.00
SAMRC Early Investigators Programme Scientists (PI) 12 6,000,000.00
Total Grants 88 37,257,082.67

Number of
Scholarship Programme Category beneficiaries Amount invested
SAMRC Researcher Development Programme PhD 8 1,566,163.54
Bongani Mayosi-National Health Scholars Programme PhD 16 4,622,876.18
Biostatistics Capacity Development Initiative MSc 8 1,395,631.00
SAMRC Clinician Researcher Development Programme PhD 28 8,148,217.32
SAMRC Postgraduate Research Associate Programme MSc and PhD 33 6,087,367.75
(previously SAMRC Internship Scholarship Programme)
The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation MSc and PhD 13 3,591,347.50
Scholarship Programme
CSSFF-SAMRC UWC MSc in Pharmacy Administration MSc 2 195,000.00
and policy regulation
SAPRIN Nodal PhD Fellowship PhD 3 520,000.00
Total Scholarships 111 26,126,603.29
Totals 199 63, 383,685.96

Similarly, for the number of awards to female MSc, The number of awards by the SAMRC to MSc, PhD,
PhD, postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists, postdocs and early career Scientists from historically
137 awards were made against a target of 108, which disadvantaged institutions (HDIs), reflected a steady
is 26.9% above the target. For the number of awards increase from 52 awards in 2021/22, 60 in 2022/23,
by the SAMRC to Black South African citizens and 68 in 2023/24, to 71 awards in 2024/25 (annual
permanent residents for MSc, PhD, postdocs and target of 83). This reflects the SAMRC’s ongoing
early career scientists classified as African, 127 awards commitment to HDIs, in particular through the RCD
were made, which was 41.1% above the target of 90. Initiative.

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