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Wellcome Accelerator Awards

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

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years

Funding amount:

Your salary (if required) and up to £200,000 for project expenses

Strategic programme:

  • Research Environment

Frequency:

Annual - Until 2028

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Wellcome Discovery Awards

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

Funding duration:

Awards can be up to 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may be longer if held on a part-time basis. The average duration of a Discovery Award is 7 years, although we have supported awards from 3 to 8 years.

Funding amount:

You should ask for the resources you need for your research programme – see the 'Research costs we'll cover' section on this page. You will need to justify this in your application. The average size of a Discovery Award is £3.5 million. Applications above £5 million will be subject to additional scrutiny.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in December 2024 and April 2025

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

Funding duration:

Usually 5 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.

Funding amount:

Your salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. Certain costs do not count towards the £400,000 research expenses limit. Check 'Research costs we'll cover' for more information.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Biology of fungal adaptation

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Established researcher
  • Mid-career researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Low- or middle-income countries (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £3 million. You should ask for the resources you need for your research programme - see the ‘Research costs we’ll cover’ section on this page. You will need to justify this in your application. 

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Climate and health funding calls
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious disease funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety- and trauma-related problems develop, persist and resolve

Wellcome will fund researchers to investigate the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher
  • Leading a research programme
  • Postdoctoral research

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £4 million

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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

This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

2–4 years

Funding amount:

£500,000-£2 million per project 

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health
  • Climate and health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Between 3 to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £5 million per award

Strategic programme:

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious disease funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Wellcome Career Development Awards

This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Mid-career researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

Funding duration:

Usually 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.

Funding amount:

You should ask for the resources you need for your research programme – see the 'Research costs we'll cover' section on this page. You will need to work with your organisation to justify your request in the context of the support they will provide.  The annual expenditure for a Career Development Award is usually below £250,000 excluding the applicant’s salary.  Applications above this value will be subject to additional scrutiny.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in November 2024 and April 2025

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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

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

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

3 to 5 years

Funding amount:

£2-5 million per project team

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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

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,…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

3 - 5 years

Funding amount:

£1 - 3 million per project

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health
  • Climate and health funding calls
  • Mental Health
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Engagement Fellowships (Closed)

Developing emerging leaders from a range of backgrounds so they can engage the public with health research.

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years. Can be done part time.

Funding amount:

Salary and research expenses covered

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
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Digital Technology Development Awards (Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease Modelling)

This scheme provides funding for software developers from any career stage and discipline to develop digital tools that will improve climate sensitive infectious disease…

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years. We expect development of the tool to take place in the early part of the award. Later years will be used for maintenance of the software.

Funding amount:

Up to £500,000 for research expenses, including salaries

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Bioimaging Technology Development Awards

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

  • UK
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Low- or middle-income countries (apart from India and mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 8 years, spanning two phases: a foundation phase for the first 18 months, followed by a scale-up phase up to a maximum of 6.5 additional years.

Funding amount:

Foundation phase: up to £500k; Scale-up phase: you should ask for the resources you need for your programme – see the 'What we offer' section on this page. You will need to justify this in your application.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Seeking predictors of vaccine efficacy: identifying correlates of protection to support vaccine development

Grant funding opportunity for research teams from not-for-profit or commercial organisations to establish or validate correlates of protection to support vaccine development…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher
  • Leading a research programme
  • Postdoctoral research

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 3 years

Funding amount:

Up to £5 million

Strategic programme:

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious disease funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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

The aim of this funding scheme is to unlock climate action by making the direct and environmentally driven impacts of climate change on a wide range of physical and…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 3 years

Funding amount:

Up to £2.5 million. In exceptional cases we may award above this. 

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health
  • Climate and health funding calls

Frequency:

Annual

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Heat adaptation: evaluating interventions to help manage the health effects of heat

The scheme will fund teams led by researchers from low- or middle-income countries (LMIC) to test interventions to manage heat-related health risks in real settings – not…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Between £500,000 and £2 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A