Wellcome Career Development Awards
Long-duration awards for mid-career researchers from any discipline ready to lead their own substantial research programme related to human life, health and wellbeing.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No published range: applicants request what the programme needs. The page states annual expenditure is usually below £250,000 excluding the applicant's salary, and applications above that face additional scrutiny. Awards usually run 8 years.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Listed as 'Apply anytime - applications are accepted year-round'.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Mid-career researchers who have completed one or two substantial periods of research after initial training and are already driving their own research; no coapplicants accepted. Administering organisation must be in the UK, Republic of Ireland or an eligible low- or middle-income country, narrowing to the UK plus LMICs in Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia from 29 October 2026.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- mid-career · research leadership · health and wellbeing
- Apply at
- https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/career-development-awards
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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