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Wellcome Trust

Funds Wellcome Trust, an independent United Kingdom foundation financing global health and biomedical discovery.

United Kingdom

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Programs11

Active grants2

Total grants9

About

Wellcome Trust is an independent charitable foundation based in the UK and founded in 1936 after the death of Sir Henry Wellcome. It manages an investment portfolio currently valued at £39.9 billion and plans to spend £16 billion over the decade to 2032, making it one of the largest biomedical research funders in the world.

Its current strategy is built around four programmes: Discovery Research,…

Programs & grants under this funder

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

Invests Wellcome Accelerator Awards to support salary plus black bangladeshi pakistani heritage researchers accelerate careers.

1 grant

Wellcome Accelerator Awards

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Wellcome Career Development Awards

Provides Wellcome Career Development Awards to support eight-year funding mid-career researchers building towards international research leadership.

1 grant

Wellcome Career Development Awards

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Wellcome Discovery Awards

Funds long-duration, high-risk health science projects led by established researchers seeking transformative discoveries.

1 grant

Wellcome Discovery Awards

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Wellcome Early-Career Awards

Backs Wellcome Early-Career Awards to support salary plus research expenses early-career researchers building independent programmes.

1 grant

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

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Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award

Connects Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award to support lmic-led randomised controlled trials on licensed infectious disease interventions.

1 grant

Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award

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Wellcome Healthcare Innovator Awards

Helps Wellcome Healthcare Innovator Awards to support programme healthcare innovation development not-for-profit researchers.

Wellcome Mental Health Award: Physical Activity and Circadian Interventions

Administers Wellcome Mental Health Award: Physical Activity and Circadian Interventions to support mechanistically informed trials of physical activity.

1 grant

Wellcome Mental Health Award: Physical Activity and Circadian Interventions

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PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals

Funds three years of PhD salary and research costs for UK-based health professionals.

1 grant

PhD Fellowships for Health Professionals

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Wellcome Translation Fund

Runs Wellcome Translation Fund to support programme biomedical technology development proof-of-concept market-ready.

Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science

Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

1 grant

Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science

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Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize

Funds a £6.25 million challenge prize for innovations that improve snakebite outcomes worldwide.

1 grant

Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize

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£6.3M pool

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