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Wellcome Trust: Career and Discovery Awards

  Tuesday, 21 Jun 2022 | Funding Deadline

The following awards are open for application:

• Wellcome Early-Career Awards: Provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme. (Deadline: 21 June 2022)
• Wellcome Career Development Awards: Provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. (Deadline: 21 July 2022)
• Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers: Provides small grants to enable clinical lecturers to pursue their research work, gather preliminary data and strengthen their applications for longer-term fellowships and funding. The scheme is administered by the Academy of Medical Sciences and is a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, Arthritis Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the Royal College of Physicians and Diabetes UK. (Deadline: March 2023)
• Wellcome Discovery Awards: 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 that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. (Deadline: 26 July 2022)