Wellcome: Collaborative awards in science

19/11/2020

16/03/2021

Wellcome invites applications for its collaborative awards in science. These promote the development of new ideas and speed up the pace of discovery in areas relevant to Wellcome. Teams of researchers, consisting of independent research groups, are funded to work together on the most important scientific problems that can only be solved through collaborative efforts. Awards are worth up to £4 million each for up to five years.

Any relevant Bio/Medical area to Wellcome.

Lead applicants must be basic, clinical or public health researchers based in the UK, Republic of Ireland, or low- or middle-income countries apart from India and mainland China. Each applicant in the team must: •be essential to the proposed collaborative research; •bring different expertise to the research question; •have proven research experience in their field and in collaborative research; •be leading their own research groups; •be based at an eligible organisation, which may be the same or different to that of other team members; •have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one.