Antimicrobial resistance: it’s time for global action
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of our greatest public health threats. We need collective, evidence-based action to control the escalating burden of drug-resistant…
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It's time to fix the antibiotic market
We need to keep developing new antibiotics to make sure we can keep protecting ourselves from ever-evolving bacteria. Governments, pharmaceutical companies and philanthropy…
Trial leads to genetically tailored diabetes treatments for first time
Quotes from Wellcome Trust researchers at the Peninsula Medical School Professor Andrew Hattersley and Dr Ewan Pearson, lead authors on the report on genetically tailored…
London museum collaboration: 'First Time Out'
What happens when you take an artefact from one collection and ask experts from another to write its story? ‘First Time Out’, a new collaboration opening on 20 January 2011…
‘Mini liver tumours’ created in a dish for the first time
Scientists have created mini biological models of human primary liver cancers, known as organoids, in the lab for the first time. In a paper published today in Nature…
Study reveals why the body clock is slow to adjust to time changes
New research in mice reveals why the body is so slow to recover from jet-lag and identifies a target for the development of drugs that could help us to adjust faster to…
Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression
Wellcome will fund researchers and teams who will validate markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible.
Lead applicant career stage:
- Leading a research programme
- Postdoctoral research
- Postgraduate training
- Returning to research
- Early-career researcher
- Mid-career researcher
- Established researcher
Administering organisation location:
- Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions)
Funding duration:
Up to 5 years
Funding amount:
Up to £5 million
Strategic programme:
- Mental Health
Frequency:
One-off
Coapplicants:
Accepted
Pandemic flu containment measures bought valuable time, Vietnam study suggests
Containment measures introduced in Vietnam to prevent the spread of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza did not succeed in halting the virus, but may have bought health services…
Snakebites – it’s time to solve the world’s biggest hidden health crisis
Today, Wellcome announces an ambitious new £80 million programme to transform the way snakebite treatments are researched and delivered, to make them better, safer and more…
Brain picks out salient sounds from background noise by tracking frequency and time
New research reveals how our brains are able to pick out important sounds from the noisy world around us. The findings, published online today in the journal ‘eLife’, could…
New brain scanner allows patients to move freely for the first time
A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed by researchers at the Sir Peter…
Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘…
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Urgent investment needed for diagnostics, treatments and vaccines to end the COVID-19 pandemic
Now is not the time to make cautious investments: now is the time for courageous action to tackle COVID-19.
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Alex Harris
Discretionary Awards: funding outside of Wellcome’s schemes and funding calls
If you have been invited to submit an application for a Discretionary Award, use the guidance on this page to help you complete your application.
Research Development Awards in Humanities, Social Science and Bioethics
For groups of researchers who want the time and resources to shape the direction of their future work. The development programmes will lay the foundation for research that…
Lead applicant career stage:
- Leading a research programme
Administering organisation location:
- Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
Funding duration:
3 to 5 years
Funding amount:
Up to £1 million
Strategic programme:
Not aligned to our strategic programmes
Frequency:
N/A
Coapplicants:
N/A
How can we better reward teamwork in research?
For a long time, academia has emphasised individual achievement over teamwork and collegiality. We want to change that.
Seeing the world differently: how the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique
Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.
Wellcome launches discovery research schemes with greater funding and longer support
Wellcome's new discovery research schemes will give researchers the time, freedom and financial resources to pursue the ideas that will improve human health