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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
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Research Enrichment – Public Engagement

This funding supports Wellcome grantholders who want to use public insights to develop their research. Find out what we offer and how to apply.

Lead applicant career stage:

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

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

Funding will end at the same time as your main Wellcome grant

Funding amount:

Between £10,000 and £250,000 (depending on your main Wellcome grant)

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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
Grant fundingSchemes
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:

N/A
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize

The Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health is an opportunity for collaborative approaches for research into anxiety and depression in young people. The Prize supports multi-…

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

6-18 months

We have partnered with Social Finance to deliver this prize. To register your interest and get updates please sign up to the Social Finance mailing list. 

Funding amount:

There are three phases to the prize, each six months long and with different levels of funding and support on offer:

  • Discovery phase: 10 teams will be selected to receive £40,000 of funding 
  • Prototyping phase: 5 teams will be selected to receive £100,000 of funding 
  • Sustainability phase: £500,000 will be allocated across 3 winning teams

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Covid-19: understanding the biological significance of SARS-CoV-2 variants

This scheme provides funding for multidisciplinary teams to help improve our understanding of the biological significance of SARS-CoV-2 variants. By the end of the award,…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

Up to 3 years. Level and duration of funding will vary depending on proposed research and associated activity.

Funding amount:

Up to £3 million for research expenses, including salaries where required.

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
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:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

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…

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

N/A

Funding amount:

N/A

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

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

Frequency:

Annual

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Generating evidence for decision-making on the use of the oral cholera vaccine

Wellcome will fund teams who will generate evidence on the use of the oral cholera vaccine, to be used in decision-making for future preventative vaccine campaigns.

Lead applicant career stage:

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

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £2.5 million

Strategic programme:

  • Infectious Disease

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
Grant fundingSchemes

Mental Health Award: improving cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis

This call supports interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis – or to test new or existing markers of…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years for intervention development and evaluation. Up to 3 years for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.

Funding amount:

Up to £3 million for applications developing interventions. Up to £1 million for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
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

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

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

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health

Frequency:

Annual

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Grant fundingSchemes
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:

N/A
Grant fundingSchemes
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

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

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
  • Infectious Disease
  • Mental Health

Frequency:

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

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

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted