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Upcoming deadlines in November 2024 and April 2025

Discovery research

Climate and health

Funding

Infectious disease

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Mid-career researcher

Discovery Research

Climate &amp; Health

Climate & Health

Discovery research schemes

Infectious Disease

Mental Health

This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Republic of Ireland

Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

Wellcome Career Development Awards 

Upcoming deadlines in December 2024 and April 2025

Established researcher

This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Wellcome Discovery Awards 

Mental health funding calls

This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation for novel mental health drug discovery

Climate and health funding calls

The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible

Early-career researcher

This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.&nbsp;

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

This programme will fund fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the measurement or treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis

Eligibility and guidance information for our funding call on using longitudinal data for mental health research. We are funding experts to develop innovative ways of identifying anxiety, depression and/or psychosis early. Successful teams will integrate cutting-edge analytics of longitudinal data with experimental research so that, in time, people may benefit from better targeted early interventions.

Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health

Leading a research programme

We're funding the development of new advanced bioimaging tools and technologies. Researchers who use bioimaging and technology developers will work together to create the bioimaging resources we need to answer ambitious research questions.

Bioimaging Technology Development Awards 

Research Environment

Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to make successful career transitions.

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

Infectious disease funding calls

This funding call will support multidisciplinary teams to generate evidence on where dengue and Zika viruses co-circulate and investigate the implications this has on host immune responses and clinical outcomes.

Infectious Disease Award: Understanding dengue and Zika spread, immunity and clinical outcomes

New multi-million pound funding available from Wellcome to explore how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of mental health symptoms.

Mental Health Award: applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis

This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis.

Mental Health Award: Accelerating scalable digital mental health interventions

This award will fund projects to advance our understanding of how heat impacts anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally through biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms.

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health

This award will support studies that explore the mechanisms and triggers for fungal adaptation, particularly in environments that are associated with disease and/or impacted by climate change.&nbsp;

Low- or middle-income countries (apart from mainland China)

Biology of fungal adaptation

This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in <a href="https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/prepare-to-apply/low-and-middle-income-countries" target="_self" rel="noopener external nofollow">low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)</a>.

Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries

Postgraduate training

Wellcome’s PhD Programmes for Health Professionals offer health professionals outstanding research training in supportive and inclusive research environments.

Clinical

Public health

PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals

Undergraduate education

These awards provide promising undergraduates with hands-on experience of research during the summer holidays. Find out what funding we offer and how to apply.

Biomedical Vacation Scholarships

Enabling researchers to undertake humanities or social science Master's courses in any area of health.

Master&#039;s Studentships in Humanities and Social Science

Bringing researchers and creative professionals together at Wellcome Collection&nbsp;to work as a collaborative residency.

The Hub Award

Postdoctoral research

Springboard Awards provide small funding grants to support basic biomedical scientists as they develop their independent research careers. Find out what we offer and how to apply.

Basic

Springboard Awards

This scheme provides small grants for clinical lecturers to pursue research work, gather preliminary data and strengthen applications for longer-term funding. See scheme details and how to apply.

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