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Open Wellcome grants

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

    Deadline: Jul 14, 2026open

    Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health is sponsored by Wellcome. Funds projects utilizing ...

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

    Deadline: Jul 14, 2026open

    Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression is sponsored by Wellcome. Aims to...

    discover:mental healthfit_score:2
  • Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression

    Deadline: Jul 14, 2026open

    Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression is sponsored by Wellcome. Aims to...

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

    Deadline: Jul 14, 2026open

    Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety- and trauma-related problems develop, persist and resolve is sponsored by Wellcome. Supports research i...

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

    Deadline: Jul 14, 2026open

    Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health is sponsored by Wellcome. Funds projects utilizing ...

    discover:mental healthfit_score:2
  • Wellcome Career Development Awards

    Deadline: Jul 28, 2026open

    Wellcome Career Development Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. Supports mid-career researchers to develop their own independent research programme in he...

    biomedical_researchclinical_researchpublic_healthprecision_medicinecareer development
  • Wellcome Trust Discovery Research Awards

    open

    Wellcome Trust Discovery Research Awards is a funding program from Wellcome that supports established researchers generating new knowledge across a br...

    biomedical_researchhealth_disparitiesmental_healthpublic_healthnutrition
  • Our Planet, Our Health Grants

    open

    Our Planet, Our Health Grants is sponsored by Wellcome. Supports research projects focusing on the relationship between environmental changes and huma...

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

    open

    Mental Health Award: applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis is a grant from Wellcome that funds ambitious, ...

    discover:mental healthfit_score:2
  • Climate Impacts Awards

    open

    Climate Impacts Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

    climate_changepublic_healthenvironmental_educationcommunity_developmentsocial_science
  • Biology of Fungal Adaptation

    open

    Biology of Fungal Adaptation is sponsored by Wellcome. Funds studies investigating the mechanisms and triggers for fungal adaptation, particularly in ...

    basic_researchclimate_changeinfectious_diseasebiomedical_researchfungal adaptation
  • Bioimaging Technology Development Awards

    open

    Bioimaging Technology Development Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. Funding for teams to create novel bioimaging tools at the cell-tissue scale, addres...

    biomedical_researchbioimagingmolecular biologycellular biologyimaging technology
  • Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis

    open

    Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis is sponsored by Wellcome. Funding for fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the m...

    mental_healthai_healthcareai_social_goodbiomedical_researchgenerative ai
  • Wellcome Early-Career Awards

    open

    Wellcome Early-Career Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to ...

    health_disparitiesbiomedical_researchearly-career researchershuman healthwellbeing
  • Data as a Foundation for AI Innovation and Global Discovery Research in the Life Sciences

    open

    Data as a Foundation for AI Innovation and Global Discovery Research in the Life Sciences is sponsored by Wellcome. Funding for projects that utilize ...

    artificial_intelligenceai_foundation_modelsbiotechnologybasic_researchdata_science
  • Mental Health Award: Using physical activity and circadian-based interventions to reduce anxiety and depression in young people

    open

    Mental Health Award: Using physical activity and circadian-based interventions to reduce anxiety and depression in young people is sponsored by Wellco...

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

    open

    Mental Health Award: applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis is a grant from Wellcome that funds ambitious, ...

    mental_healthclinical_researchbiomedical_researchpublic_healthneuroscience
  • Discovery Research

    open

    Discovery Research is sponsored by Wellcome. Wellcome's Discovery Research schemes fund curiosity-driven research across multiple disciplines that lea...

    biomedical_researchmental_healthclinical_researchprecision_medicineai_healthcare
  • Climate and Health Funders Coalition

    open

    Climate and Health Funders Coalition is sponsored by Wellcome. A coalition of over 35 philanthropies, including Wellcome, committed an initial $300 mi...

    climate_changepublic_healthglobal_healthenvironmental_justicehealth_disparities
  • Wellcome Discovery Awards

    open

    Wellcome Discovery Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. Funding for established researchers and teams to pursue bold and creative research ideas deliverin...

    biomedical_researchmental_healthpublic_healthprecision_medicineglobal_health

How to apply for Wellcome grants

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