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Wellcome Accelerator Awards

Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to make…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years

Funding amount:

Your salary (if required) and up to £200,000 for project expenses

Strategic programme:

  • Research Environment

Frequency:

Annual - Until 2028

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
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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

Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries

This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

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

Funding duration:

2–4 years

Funding amount:

£500,000-£2 million per project 

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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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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News and announcementsAnalysis

Why we still haven’t stopped cholera

Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.
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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
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Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation for novel mental health drug discovery

This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in…

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years

Funding amount:

Up to £700,000 per project

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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Schemes

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:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted
Schemes
Schemes

Mental Health Award: applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis

New multi-million pound funding available from Wellcome to explore how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of mental health symptoms.

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

3 to 5 years

Funding amount:

£2-5 million per project team

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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Schemes

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health

This award will fund projects to advance our understanding of how heat impacts anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally through biological,…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

3 - 5 years

Funding amount:

£1 - 3 million per project

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health
  • Mental Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted
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Schemes

Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health

Eligibility and guidance information for our funding call on using longitudinal data for mental health research. We are funding experts to draw on the potential of…

Lead applicant career stage:

  • Early-career researcher
  • Mid-career researcher
  • Established researcher

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

3-5 years

Funding amount:

£1-5 million per project

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Required
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Schemes

Engagement Fellowships (Closed)

Developing emerging leaders from a range of backgrounds so they can engage the public with health research.

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years. Can be done part time.

Funding amount:

Salary and research expenses covered

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

N/A
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Biographies of our Board of Governors, who guide and oversee Wellcome's activities.
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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
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Schemes

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