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Wellcome Data Science Ideathon

The Wellcome Data Science Ideathon is a competition that will have teams compete to propose data science solutions to tackle three urgent health challenges: mental…

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Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

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Coapplicants:

Accepted
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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

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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Grant fundingSchemes

Pathfinder Awards (Closed)

Funding pilot projects that address an unmet medical need or offer a new solution to a problem.

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Funding amount:

£100,000, but can be up to £350,000 in exceptional circumstances

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

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Contract opportunities

Find out about contract opportunities to support Wellcome's mission to improve human health – including an overview of each project, who can apply and how.
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Seed Awards in Science

Helping researchers develop novel ideas that will go on to form part of larger grant applications to Wellcome or elsewhere.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme
  • Postdoctoral research
  • Returning to research

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years

Funding amount:

Up to £100,000

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

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Coapplicants:

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Grant fundingSchemes

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:

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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:

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Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Between £500,000 and £2 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

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Coapplicants:

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Grant fundingSchemes

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
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Mental Health Award: Integrating sleep and circadian science into our understanding and treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis

Wellcome will fund individuals or teams researching the interdependent roles of sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions in the development and resolution of mental health…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

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 £3 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

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Coapplicants:

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Grant fundingSchemes

Mental Health Award: looking backwards, moving forward – understanding how interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis work

Wellcome will fund teams of researchers investigating causal mechanisms underpinning effective interventions for anxiety, depression, and/or psychosis.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

Up to 8 years but can be much shorter

Funding amount:

Up to £5 million

  • You should ask for the resources that you need and are appropriate for your proposed research project, justifying these costs in your full application. See the 'What we offer' section on this page.

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

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