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Biomedical Resource Grants (Closed)

Funding researchers who want to establish new biomedical resources (including databases and collections) or substantially enhance existing ones. These resources should enable…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £1.5 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Schemes
Schemes

Technology Development Grants (Closed)

Funding researchers who want to develop new technologies and tools (including informatics tools and software) for biomedical research, or substantially enhance existing ones…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

Up to 5 years

Funding amount:

Up to £1.5 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Schemes
Schemes

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
Schemes
Schemes

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
Schemes
Schemes

Snakebite Grants: Discovering and Developing New Treatments (Closed)

Providing support for researchers working on innovative approaches to discover and develop next generation treatments for snakebite.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Leading a research programme

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Flexible, depending on level of funding. Usually 2 to 3 years, with a maximum of 5 years

Funding amount:

Awards of approximately £500,000 to £3 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
Funding portfolio
Funding portfolio

Grants awarded: People Awards

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘People Awards’. People Awards have been replaced by the Public Engagement Fund.
Press release
Press release

Recent biomedical science awards

Among the new awards made through our Neuroscience and Mental Health funding stream is one to Professor Phil Maguire, a psychiatrist at King’s College London who will be…
Positions and statements
Positions and statements

Emerging science and technologies

Emerging science and technologies, such as human genome editing and gene drive, could provide new solutions to health problems.
Policies grant conditions
Policies grant conditions

Grant conditions

These set out the terms and conditions on which we award grants. Applicants and organisations must comply with our grant conditions, along with our funding policies and any…
Funding guidance
Funding guidance

Ending a grant

Learn how to report the outcomes of your project, publish your findings, and claim your final grant payment.
Schemes
Schemes

Biomedical Vacation Scholarships

These awards provide promising undergraduates with hands-on experience of research during the summer holidays. Find out what funding we offer and how to apply.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Undergraduate education

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

6 to 8 weeks

Funding amount:

Salary at the real Living Wage

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
Policies grant conditions
Policies grant conditions

Clinical research using NHS resources

If you're applying for funding to do clinical research in the UK, you may need to complete a Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Tool (SoECAT). Find out who needs to complete…
Funding portfolio
Funding portfolio

Grants awarded: Wellcome-Beit Prize

Each year we award Wellcome-Beit Prizes to our most promising fellows who are starting to lead their own independent research programmes. We provide £25,000 to each fellow,…