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Statement in response to the WHO Emergency Committee meeting on Covid-19
Dr Charlie Weller, Head of Infectious Disease Prevention at Wellcome, responds to the WHO decision not to declare an end to the Public Health Emergency of International…
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
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
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
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
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:
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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
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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
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
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
UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge
Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are seeking technical visions and architectures for a UK National Data Library to make public sector datasets…
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
Global leaders urged to address ‘fragile progress’ on tackling superbugs
GLOBAL efforts to counter the threat of dangerous superbugs must move faster and with more focus, health leaders are warning.
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
- Infectious disease funding calls
Frequency:
One-off
Coapplicants:
Accepted
Funding scheme application deadlines
Key dates for funding schemes.
Why is it so hard to develop new antibiotics?
Discovering and then bringing new antibiotics to market is a tricky challenge – but one we need to solve if we want to be better protected against the growing threat of drug-…
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
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…
Five real-world examples of how climate mitigation can benefit health
Climate mitigation has the potential to protect and improve people’s health, as well as reduce emissions. We look at five solutions from around the world and across different…
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