Our aim is to improve health through the best research. We do this through four core objectives.
1. Creating knowledge: we support the broadest range of research, that extends knowledge by testing and investigating ideas. In doing so, we will take risks.
2. Strengthening research capacity: we support the most able and dedicated researchers at every career stage and give them access to the best possible equipment and infrastructure.
3. Using knowledge effectively: we work to make the knowledge generated through Wellcome support readily available to be used by others and, where relevant, to improve health.
4. Promoting an environment in which research can flourish: we work with others to make sure the research environment is conducive to the flourishing of science and health research.
Find out more about the science team's strategy, Improving health through the best research [PDF 1MB].
Our Science Strategy Advisory Group helps us to develop and deliver our strategy.
A major part of our work is engaging with the research community about their research ideas, many of whom will go through our funding schemes.
Funding for large-scale research proposals that do not fit within our funding schemes, but help to deliver the science team's strategy, may be available through Science Strategic Support. Prospective applicants should contact a member of the science team to discuss their proposal.
If you have a question about the research content or scope of your proposal, then the remits of each team and relevant contacts are shown below.
If you have a question about your eligibility, the application process, funding policies or general queries about grants, please use our contact form instead.
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Genetics and Molecular Sciences and Acting Head of Cellular and Developmental Sciences
Senior Portfolio Developer
Senior Portfolio Developer
Senior Portfolio Adviser
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences
PA to Sara Marshall and Department Coordinator
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Genetics and Molecular Sciences and Acting Head of Cellular and Developmental Sciences
Senior Portfolio Developer
Senior Portfolio Developer
Science Portfolio Adviser
Science Portfolio Adviser
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Infection and Immunobiology
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Senior Portfolio Developer
Science Portfolio Adviser
Science Portfolio Adviser
Science Portfolio Adviser
Senior Portfolio Developer
The team oversees Wellcome's priority area Our Planet, Our Health.
Contact the team about the research content or scope of your proposal or to discuss initiatives in this area.
Head of Population Health
Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager
Senior Portfolio Lead
Science Portfolio Adviser
Portfolio Adviser
The team coordinates the operations and governance of international initiatives, and oversees Wellcome’s priority area research ecosystems in Africa and Asia.
Head of International Operations and Partnerships
International Operations and Partnerships Adviser
Project Coordinator, Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia – International Operations and Partnerships
Programme Officer, Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia – International Operations and Partnerships
Executive Assistant and Project Manager
Head of UK and Europe Research Landscape
This report looks at how national health research system capacity in Africa can be improved, drawing on lessons and insights from across the continent.
This report presents the main findings from Wellcome's review of the way it funds science.
[Summary] At the end of 2018, Wellcome launched a review to look at the way it funds science. This report presents the main findings.