About
Wellcome is a global charitable foundation with a vision of a healthier future for everyone. The foundation funds research around the world, across a broad range of disciplines, to understand life, health and wellbeing and to deliver equitable health solutions. Wellcome supports discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and takes on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health. The foundation works with communities, governments and partners across the world to advocate for evidence-based health policies that support the communities most affected.
Funding Opportunities
Springboard Awards
Springboard Awards provide small grants to support basic biomedical scientists as they develop their independent research careers. The scheme is a collaboration between the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Wellcome Trust. The awards are designed for early-career researchers within five years of being appointed to their first independent post (such as a lecturer position) who do not currently hold significant research funding. The funding can be used to cover research expenses, equipment, research assistance, and travel costs for meetings and collaborations. Successful applicants also receive mentoring and career support from the Academy of Medical Sciences. The program specifically supports researchers at eligible UK higher education institutions who have salary support from their current post. Practising clinicians are not eligible for this scheme but may apply for the Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers instead. Personal salary costs cannot be covered by this award.
Wellcome Discovery Awards
Wellcome Discovery Awards provide 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. The scheme supports research that aims to make major contributions by generating significant shifts in understanding and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. Awards can be held by individual established researchers or teams of researchers led by an established researcher. The program provides comprehensive support including salary costs, research expenses, equipment, staff salaries, overseas allowances, and professional development. Researchers are encouraged to put together diverse teams and actively promote inclusive research environments. The average Discovery Award is £3.5 million with a typical duration of 7 years, though awards can last up to 8 years.
Wellcome Career Development Awards
The Wellcome Career Development Awards provide funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. This scheme supports researchers to develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. Awards typically run for up to 8 years (may be less for some disciplines or longer if held part-time), with annual expenditure usually below £250,000 excluding the applicant's salary. The scheme provides salary support (if required), research staff (up to 4 FTE), equipment, materials, training, overseas allowances, and all other necessary research costs. Recipients must contribute at least 80% of their research time to the award and are expected to develop leadership skills, support others in research, and train the next generation of researchers.
Genomics in Context Awards
These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to catalyse research discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics. Funded projects will be given the time and resources to create new research agendas and explore innovative ways of working. The call aims to address the issue that wider humanities and social science fields are often underrepresented in genomics research, and communities or other social partners are often not centred, with perspectives often only included after key research decisions have already been made. This call supports novel, transdisciplinary teams to explore this area by enabling an increased breadth of collaborative partners, the earlier integration of partners at the conceptual stage of research agenda development, a focus on discovery research, and a plan for integrated collaboration across the research lifecycle. The awards support teams during the research ideation, design and partnership building phases to co-develop novel discovery research questions, methods, approaches and potentially new fields.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 6
- Active Now
- 4
- Source Domain
- wellcome.org
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