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Can bioimaging build capacity in fungi research?

Fungal infections are an increasing threat and we need researchers around the world to work on these problems. But fungal research is very challenging in resource-limited…
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Strengthening health and disease modelling for public health decision making in Africa

Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are providing grant funding to strengthen health and disease modeling for public health decision making in Africa

Lead applicant career stage:

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

Administering organisation location:

  • Africa

Funding duration:

3-5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £3 million

Strategic programme:

  • Infectious Disease

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
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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
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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

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Funding application advisory committees
Funding application advisory committees

Molecular Mechanisms Discovery Advisory Group

This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Career Development Awards and Wellcome Discovery Awards.
Funding application advisory committees
Funding application advisory committees

Genetics and Genomics Discovery Advisory Group

This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Career Development Awards and Wellcome Discovery Awards.
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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

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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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
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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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Schemes

Biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health 

Wellcome will fund teams of researchers investigating the biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

3 to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £2 million per award. In exceptional cases we may award above £2 million.

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
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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
  • Infectious Disease

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted