Wellcome, GB: Discovery awards

16/09/2021

11/11/2021

Wellcome invites applications for its discovery awards. These support established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. The applicant must aim to make a major contribution to your research field by generating significant shifts in understanding or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. The award provides funding for research expenses for up to eight years, but may be less for some disciplines, and longer if held on a part-time basis.

The research can be in any discipline – including science, technology, engineering and mathematics, experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical or allied health sciences, and public health – as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with Wellcome’s funding remit.

Applicants based in HEIs, research insitutes, non-academic healthcare organisations and not-for-profit organisations in the UK, Republic of Ireland, low- or middle-income countries, apart from India and mainland China, may apply. They must have an international standing as a research leader in their field, experience of leading innovative and creative research and a track record of managing and training others. The applicant must be able to contribute at least 20 per cent of their research time to the programme. At the point of application, they must have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one. The salary must be paid by the host organisation for the duration of the award. Co-applicants can be at any career stage and based anywhere in the world, apart from mainland China.