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Upcoming deadlines in May and October 2024

Discovery research

Climate and health

Funding

Infectious disease

Mental health

Early-career researcher

Discovery Research

Climate &amp; Health

Climate & Health

Discovery research schemes

Infectious Disease

Mental Health

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.&nbsp;

Republic of Ireland

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

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

Mid-career researcher

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.

Wellcome Career Development Awards 

Upcoming deadlines in July and December 2024

Established researcher

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.

Wellcome Discovery Awards 

Leading a research programme

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.

Bioimaging Technology Development Awards 

Research Environment

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.

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

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.

Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

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

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

Postdoctoral research

Returning to research

Infectious disease funding calls

Wellcome will fund teams who will generate evidence on the use of the oral cholera vaccine, to be used in decision-making for future preventative vaccine campaigns.

Generating evidence for decision-making on the use of the oral cholera vaccine 

Postgraduate training

Mental health funding calls

Wellcome will fund researchers and teams who will validate markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible.

Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions)

Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression 

Wellcome will fund researchers to investigate the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders.

Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety- and trauma-related problems develop, persist and resolve

Wellcome and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation are providing grant funding to strengthen health and disease modeling for public health decision making in Africa

Africa

Strengthening health and disease modelling for public health decision making in Africa

Grant funding opportunity for research teams from not-for-profit or commercial organisations to establish or validate correlates of protection to support vaccine development. Find out eligibility criteria, what we offer, and how to apply.

Seeking predictors of vaccine efficacy: identifying correlates of protection to support vaccine development

Climate and health funding calls

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.

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

Undergraduate education

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.

Biomedical Vacation Scholarships

Enabling researchers to undertake humanities or social science Master's courses in any area of health.

Master&#039;s Studentships in Humanities and Social Science

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

Clinical

Public health

PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals

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.

Basic

Springboard Awards

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.

Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers

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

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