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Wellcome Discovery Awards

Deadline: 08 April 2025

This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

Funding duration:

Awards can be up to 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may be longer if held on a part-time basis. The average duration of a Discovery Award is 7 years, although we have supported awards from 3 to 8 years.

Funding amount:

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. The average size of a Discovery Award is £3.5 million. Applications above £5 million will be subject to additional scrutiny.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in December 2024 and April 2025

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation for novel mental health drug discovery

Deadline: 15 April 2025

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 anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

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
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible

Deadline: 30 April 2025

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:

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
  • Climate and health funding calls

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

Deadline: 22 May 2025

This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme. 

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

Funding duration:

Usually 5 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.

Funding amount:

Your salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. Certain costs do not count towards the £400,000 research expenses limit. Check 'Research costs we'll cover' for more information.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year

Coapplicants:

Not accepted

Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis

Deadline: 28 May 2025

This programme will fund fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the measurement or treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

Up to 2 years. Participants will join an accelerator stage for the first 4 months, which is not a grant. Then, they will have the opportunity to apply for grant funding for up to 2 years.

Funding amount:

Up to £3 million per award

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Wellcome Career Development Awards

Deadline: 24 July 2025

This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

Funding duration:

Usually 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.

Funding amount:

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 work with your organisation to justify your request in the context of the support they will provide.  The annual expenditure for a Career Development Award is usually below £250,000 excluding the applicant’s salary.  Applications above this value will be subject to additional scrutiny.

Strategic programme:

  • Discovery Research
  • Climate and Health
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Mental Health
  • Discovery research schemes

Frequency:

Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in November 2024 and April 2025

Coapplicants:

Not accepted

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

Opening: 23 April 2025

Eligibility and guidance information for our funding call on using longitudinal data for mental health research. We are funding experts to develop innovative ways of identifying anxiety, depression and/or psychosis early. Successful teams will integrate cutting-edge analytics of longitudinal data with experimental research so that, in time, people may benefit from better targeted early interventions.

Lead applicant career stage:

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
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Bioimaging Technology Development Awards

Closed to applications

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 bioimaging resources we need to answer ambitious research questions.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

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

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

Closed to applications

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

Lead applicant career stage:

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

Infectious Disease Award: Understanding dengue and Zika spread, immunity and clinical outcomes

Closed to applications

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 immune responses and clinical outcomes.

Lead applicant career stage:

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
  • Infectious disease funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

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

Closed to applications

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:

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
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Mental Health Award: Accelerating scalable digital mental health interventions

Closed to applications

This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis.

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

  • Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

Funding duration:

up to 5 years

Funding amount:

£3 to 7 million per project

Strategic programme:

  • Mental Health

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

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

Closed to applications

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, psychological and/or social mechanisms.

Lead applicant career stage:

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
  • Climate and health funding calls
  • Mental Health
  • Mental health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Biology of fungal adaptation

Closed to applications

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 by climate change. 

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

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
  • Climate and health funding calls
  • Discovery research schemes
  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious disease funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

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

Closed to applications

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:

Administering organisation location:

Funding duration:

2–4 years

Funding amount:

£500,000-£2 million per project 

Strategic programme:

  • Climate and Health
  • Climate and health funding calls

Frequency:

One-off

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Other funding opportunities

As well as funding research that supports our strategy, we also provide funding for researchers at earlier career stages and from outside of scientific communities. Some of these funding opportunities require you to submit an application through a different organisation.

PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals

Deadline: Various dates

Wellcome’s PhD Programmes for Health Professionals offer health professionals outstanding research training in supportive and inclusive research environments.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

3 years (full-time equivalent)

Funding amount:

Salary and research expenses covered

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Not accepted

Biomedical Vacation Scholarships

Deadline: Various dates

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:

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

The Hub Award

Closed to applications

Bringing researchers and creative professionals together at Wellcome Collection to work as a collaborative residency.

Lead applicant career stage:

N/A

Administering organisation location:

N/A

Funding duration:

One to two years

Funding amount:

Flexible funding, up to £1 million

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Springboard Awards

Closed to applications

Springboard Awards provide small funding grants to support basic biomedical scientists as they develop their independent research careers. Find out what we offer and how to apply.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

Two years

Funding amount:

Up to £100,000, with research assistance and expenses

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Accepted

Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers

Closed to applications

This scheme provides small grants for clinical lecturers to pursue research work, gather preliminary data and strengthen applications for longer-term funding. See scheme details and how to apply.

Lead applicant career stage:

Administering organisation location:

  • UK

Funding duration:

1 to 2 years

Funding amount:

Up to £30,000

Strategic programme:

Not aligned to our strategic programmes

Frequency:

N/A

Coapplicants:

Not accepted
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