Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize
Challenge Works (prize funded by Wellcome)
A challenge prize for innovations that strengthen community response to snakebite, speed access to appropriate care, or improve treatment delivery in high-burden settings. Runs on prize stages, not a grant application.
- Indicative award
- up to $6.3M (varies by call)Published as a "£6.25 million challenge prize" — that is the TOTAL pot in POUNDS STERLING, not USD, and the page does not publish how it splits across stages or how many winners share it. Treat the figure as the programme ceiling, not an award size.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-16 — 33 days awayEntries close 12pm UTC on 16 September 2026. The prize itself is listed as running 17/06/2026 – 31/12/2030, so later stages and any further entry windows fall inside that window.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- The prize page states entries are open "to organisations around the world" — so an individual researcher cannot enter alone, and the entry must be a deployable social, technological, or system-level innovation rather than a study proposal. Full entity rules sit on the separate prize portal.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- snakebite envenoming · community health response · access to care · neglected tropical diseases · health systems delivery
- Apply at
- https://challengeworks.org/challenge-prizes/wellcome-snakebite-innovation-prize/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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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