Find out about the people and projects we’ve funded and get the latest data on all our grant funding.
We fund transformative research by early-career, mid-career and established researchers from the beginnings of ideas at the discovery stage through to enabling projects to have an impact out in the world. The work we support crosses many fields and disciplines, such as physical and social sciences, clinical research, arts and humanities. We have committed to spend £16bn on research in the decade to 2032.
The research we’ll support in the future isn’t limited by what we’ve supported in the past – we're open to new ideas and perspectives. You can find out what we're currently looking for on our funding opportunity page.
Browse topline project summaries written by our current and past grantholders who work across a wide range of disciplines from health to humanities and engineering to arts.
You can search by scheme, strategic programme, organisation, location and keyword. This list does not include every grant we’ve awarded.
Examine a detailed table of Wellcome grants since 2005 including amount awarded, key dates, additional applicants, summary and more.
We regularly update this data – the end date in the spreadsheet title shows when it was last updated.
Full information about our funding each year is in our Annual Report and Financial Statements. However the figures in there differ from this dataset because this dataset:
Note that Wellcome’s recent grant to Wellcome Leap to renew its funding is not included in the 30 April 2025 version of our grant list so will not appear in the total amount awarded for 2023/24.
The sponsors listed against each award do not receive funding from these grants. The role of the sponsor on Wellcome awards are to give the applicant research guidance during the application process and throughout the grant, as well as support the applicant's development throughout the grant. Read more about the roles and responsibilities of people involved in Wellcome funding.
This dataset is presented in two tables - Main Grant List and Additional Location Data
To capture all the locations linked to a single award, the data from both tables needs to be combined, using the 'Internal ID’ to associate all locations to a single award.
Where a grant has transferred to a different individual or organisation, the lead applicant/recipient organisation reflects the current award holder. This is indicated under ‘Has the grant transferred?’
‘Total amount including partnership funding’ shows the total value of the award including any partner contribution. For grants with no partnership or no financial contribution from the partner, the amount awarded from Wellcome is repeated in this column to show the total value of the award.
Wellcome has updated its grant funding systems and changed how we structure our grant data. For example, rather than have multiple grant records relating to a single award, in some cases we have combined these into a single record. This has resulted in fewer overall grant records in this dataset compared to previous versions we have published, and in some cases shifts to the financial year which a grant is allocated to. If you’re using this data, please take this into consideration when using earlier versions of this list of grants (any with date ranges before or up to 30th September 2023).
These spreadsheets have been created using the 360Giving data standard. The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, which means the data is freely available to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Wellcome, however we do not validate any onwards analysis, coding or use of our data.
Through our directed funding we work with others to address significant, complex problems that require a long-term approach, for example, how to help build research capacity in Africa and Asia – two areas facing some of the world’s greatest health challenges.
Usually, we directly approach other organisations with an offer, setting up programmes, partnerships, institutions or separate organisations where that would be the most effective mechanism.
Tackling some of the biggest challenges in research requires a long-term perspective and a sizeable focus. We call this area of work our directed funding. Learn more about the initiatives we support with this programme of work.
Wellcome Leap is a not-for-profit organisation set up by Wellcome to accelerate discovery and innovation for the benefit of human health.
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a UK-based genomic research centre funded by Wellcome to improve human health and understand life on earth.
Get broad insights on how and where we spend our money by digging into the data we collect or exploring it on external platforms to compare what we do with other funders in the UK or internationally.
Get an overview of our most recent year of grant funding in numbers. Find out how many grants we’ve awarded, total amount spent, figures on the diversity of those we’ve funded, location of projects and more.
We make data about our grant funding available in the following places so that our funding can be compared to that of other funders in the UK and internationally. However, we do not validate any analysis, coding or use of our data through these external websites. For more detail about how these external organisations use Wellcome’s data in their tools please contact them directly.
Find out how Wellcome's funding contributes to UK medical research charity funding.
Our financial expenditure data features in the AMRC member's research expenditure dashboard and our grant data is used for their annual 'Our sector's footprint' reports.
Dimensions is a global research data platform, available to use by their subscribers, which contains data about Wellcome awards.
Grant data shared with ePMC allows award holders to link Wellcome grants to their associated publications.
The values of awards shown here do not include any supplements provided during the grant. All publications that report original research, supported wholly, or in part, by Wellcome, must be made freely available from ePMC upon publication. More details are available in our open access policy.
Use G-Finder to find Wellcome grants that contribute to research and development of new products and technologies for global health issues.
Use the MODARI Data Tool to find Wellcome grants that are linked to UK overseas development aid research and investment.
Wellcome data can be found through the OECD Data Explorer. Data from this is used to publish reports.
Pandemic PACT tracks and analyses global funding and evidence for research on diseases with pandemic potential and broader research preparedness efforts. Data on Wellcome’s awards used in this tracker is from the list of Wellcome awards with further coding added by the Pandemic PACT team.
Wellcome's data features in the UK Health Research Analysis reporting series which is used to provide a snapshot of UK biomedical research funding and uses the UKCRC Health Research Classification system
View grants funded by Wellcome and other global research funders on the World RePORT database, hosted by the National Institutes of Health – an online database and mapping tool of global research investments.
View our current and upcoming opportunities to apply for research funding.
Find everything you need to understand if you can apply for funding and how to get started.
