Wellcome Grants

Open Wellcome grants

• Wellcome Career Development Awards

  Up to $250Kopen

  The scheme supports mid-career researchers ready to lead a substantial and innovative research programme that generates significant shifts in understa...

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• Wellcome Discovery Awards

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

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• Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award

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  Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award is sponsored by Wellcome. This funding call supports the formation of transdisciplinary teams led ...

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• Wellcome Trust Climate and Health Awards

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  Wellcome Trust Climate and Health Awards is sponsored by Wellcome. Wellcome funds research that generates evidence of how people's health is affected ...

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• Wellcome Trust Discovery Research Awards

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

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• Engagement Fellowships

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  Engagement Fellowships is sponsored by Wellcome. Fellowships aimed at developing emerging leaders to engage the public with health research, offering ...

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• Our Planet, Our Health Grants

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

• Discovery Research

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

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• Biology of Fungal Adaptation

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

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• Bioimaging Technology Development Awards

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

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• Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis

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

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• Wellcome Early-Career Awards

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

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• Leveraging the metabolic vulnerabilities of macrophages in pancreatic cancer

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  Leveraging the metabolic vulnerabilities of macrophages in pancreatic cancer is sponsored by Wellcome. Research focused on understanding macrophage me...

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• Data as a Foundation for AI Innovation and Global Discovery Research in the Life Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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• GEN-IMPACT

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  GEN-IMPACT is sponsored by Wellcome. GEN-IMPACT is a pioneering Africa-led initiative designed to transform health through genomic discovery.

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• Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation

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  Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation is sponsored by Wellcome. This call funds validation activities for novel targets with a clear therap...

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• Mental Health Research Programme

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  Mental Health Research Programme is sponsored by Wellcome. Supports research into mental health conditions and interventions. Match reasons: Matches ...

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• Climate and Health Funders Coalition

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

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Where Wellcome grants go

Recent grant recipients are concentrated in these states. Funders sometimes fund outside their primary states for high-fit projects, so don't self-eliminate solely on geography — check each opportunity's stated eligibility.

What Wellcome funds

Top program areas based on GrantMind's analysis of recent Wellcome awards:

How to apply for Wellcome grants

Most Wellcome applications require: an organizational profile with mission and programs, a project proposal aligned with the funder's stated priorities, a project budget, and supporting attachments (IRS determination letter, board list, recent financials). Many private and community foundations require a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) before a full proposal — see our guide below.