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This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.
ELIGIBILITY: An award can be held by an established researcher or a team of researchers led by an established researcher.
You can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if you are a researcher who wants to pursue bold and creative research ideas. You must aim to make a major contribution to your research field by:
- generating significant shifts in understanding
and/or
- developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.
You must be based at an eligible host organisation that can sign up to our grant conditions. It must be in one of the following:
- UK
- Republic of Ireland
- a low- or middle-income country (apart from India and mainland China).
SCHOLARSHIP VALUE:
A Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for research expenses.
The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science.
The award may be held on a part-time basis. We will extend the duration of the award to reflect this.
What we don’t offer
The award does not include salary costs for the lead applicant.
We only provide a salary for coapplicants in certain circumstances – see ‘staff costs’ for further details.
DURATION: 8 years
DEADLINE: 21 Nov 2023, 16 April 2024 and 30 July 2024
HOW TO APPLY: Apply online
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