Discovery Research
Research in a wide range of disciplines generating new insights into life, health and wellbeing.
Research funding
We fund research to improve life, health and wellbeing through new knowledge and understanding.
Our strategic programmes
Read what we do and don’t fund in discovery research
Climate and Health
Research that generates evidence of how people’s health is affected by climate change and by actions to address it.
Infectious Disease
Research to inform and accelerate interventions that reduce the impact of infectious diseases.
Mental Health
Research to better understand anxiety, depression and psychosis and develop new ways to intervene earlier.
Funding opportunities
We’re spending £16 billion in the decade to 2032 on a range of activities to enable discoveries and advance solutions for urgent health challenges. Our funding supports early-career, mid-career and established researchers across a broad scope of research, including physical and social sciences, clinical research and humanities.
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Funding guidance
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Managing your grant
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Funding policies and grant conditions
Find out what we expect of you and your organisation when you hold a Wellcome grant.
Funded people and projects
Funded grants
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