Application information
Here you can find general information about applying for a grant in the biomedical sciences. For more specific details, please refer to the individual grants.
Most frequently used
- Funding streams FAQ
Find out which of our funding streams best suits your proposal
- Funding streams remit
See details of the remit for funding streams
- Contacts
Contact details for biomedical science, arranged by stream
- Eligibility
Find out if you and your organisation are eligible for Wellcome Trust funding
- Deadlines
Information on the closing dates for grant applications
- Licences required
The information and licences you need before you make a full application
- Employment of staff
Guidelines for employing people under your grant
- Biomedical science committees
Details of the committees that consider grant applications
- eGrants
The online system to use for your grant application
- Grant Conditions
Details of the conditions under which our grants are awarded
- Glossary
Definitions of funding-related terms
Costs
- Allowed costs
What you can apply for on a grant, including subsistence costs
- Disallowed costs
What you can't apply for on a grant
- Studentship stipend scale [Excel 33.5KB]
The stipends payable for studentships
- Salary enhancement
What the Trust adds to your salary
- Inflation/flexible funding allowance
Inflation allowance and flexibility for your grant
- Currency issues
Our current policy, inflation and foreign-exchange risk
- Staff categories [PDF 13.4KB]
Definitions of employees
- Overseas allowances
For those working away from home for over a year
- Full economic costs
The Wellcome Trust's position on full economic costs in UK universities
Policies
- Research involving people living in developing countries
Guidelines for undertaking research in developing countries
- Use of animals in research
Policy on research involving animals
- Good research practice
Guidelines applying to all the research that we fund
- Intellectual property and patenting
Our position on the protection and use of intellectual property through patents
- Research publishing and open access
Our position statement in support of unrestricted access to the published output of research
- Human participants in research
Ethical requirements for work involving human participants
- Funding for cancer research
Circumstances under which the Trust supports cancer research
- Funding for clinical trials
Funding policy and other information relating to clinical trials
- All policies and positions
The Trust's position on key issues
Process
- Overview of the application process
What you need to know about applying for a grant
- Overview of the decision-making process
How decisions on grant applications are made
Other
- Subject classification
How to assign a subject to your application
- Service standards
What you can expect in terms of service from us