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Research Funding Team
We work with other teams in Wellcome to deliver our funding schemes.
The Research Funding team:
- manages the grant application and award processes for all our funding activities
- manages Wellcome's grant application systems
- provides advice to applicants on how to apply for grants, our funding policies, and our procedures
- manages peer review and our funding committees
- supports award holders throughout their grant.
Our staff have expertise across science, public engagement and medical humanities, as well as administration, business processes, systems and policy.
Meet the team
Alyson Fox
Director of Research Funding
Wellcome
Alyson Fox joined Wellcome in November 2010. She has responsibility for the management and governance of our grant funding and review processes.
John Rautenbach
Operations Manager
Wellcome
Funding Logistics
Sinead Lane
Associate Director, Directed Funding and Planning
Elizabeth Benson
Senior Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Lauren Mills
Senior Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Jonathan Wilkinson
Senior Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Frankie Parody
Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Ben Harrison
Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Elizabeth Aggrey
Committee Logistics Officer
Angela Rookes
Committee Logistics Officer
Funding Management
Lorraine Monteiro
Associate Director, Funding Management
Zoe Broomfield
Brain and Behavioural Sciences Team Manager, Funding Management
Vicky Marlow
Cells, Systems and Tools Team Manager, Funding Management
Helen Thompson
Genetic and Molecular Sciences Team Manager, Funding Management
Sophie Hutchison
Humanities and Social Science Team Manager, Funding Management
Sheilagh Molloy
Infection and Immunobiology Team Manager, Funding Management
Kiri Tan
Funding Manager
Tyler Jackling
Funding Manager
Katherine Moynihan
Funding Manager
Anna Myat
Funding Manager
Shaakir Salam
Funding Manager
Jonathan Threlfall
Funding Manager
Edward Barton
Funding Manager
Vivianne Goosens
Funding Manager (maternity cover)
Nancy Hagan
Funding Manager
Sarah Kohe
Funding Manager
Emilie Rance
Funding Manager
Nana Shimosako
Funding Manager
Barbara Vacca
Funding Manager
Greg West
Funding Manager
Kate Drew
Funding Manager
Sharon James
Funding Manager
Dominic Jones
Funding Manager
Jaime Townend
Funding Manager
Philip Jones
Funding Manager
Iksha Limbu
Funding Manager
Helen Stanton
Funding Manager
Harriet Wykeham
Funding Manager
Ellie Estchild
Funding Manager
Nicola Cattini
Funding Manager
Rebecca Grayson
Funding Manager
Hannah Partridge
Senior Funding Manager, Directed Activities
Megan Zelenka
Funding Manager
Funding Operations & Governance
Anne Taylor
Head of Grant Operations
Sanja Vlaisavljevic
Funding Policies Manager
Mike Niedzwiecki
Funding Information Manager
Nina Frentrop
Funding Systems & Data Manager
Colin Dempsey
Senior Funding Policies Adviser
Kerry Garfitt
Senior Funding Policies Adviser
Margaret Hurley
Funding Policies Adviser
James Lovell
Business Analyst
Nick Ward
Business Analyst
Annie Sanderson
Data Analyst
Dan Smith
Data Analyst
Contact us
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