Biomedical science funded projects

Our funding supports individuals, collaborations and large-scale initiatives in the biomedical sciences.

Here you will find examples of the work we support, along with listings of awards made to researchers and the ambitious initiatives that tackle strategically important challenges.

If you would like to see further examples of our funding and how we measure our success, please see Monitoring our progress.

Major initiatives Examples of the strategically important initiatives and projects we have funded in the biomedical sciences in the UK and internationally.

• African Institutions Initiative
• Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
• Cancer Genome Project
• Centres for Research in Clinical Tropical Medicine
• Clinical Research Facilities
• Diamond synchrotron
• Health research capacity in Kenya and Malawi
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory
• London Pain Consortium
• Major Overseas Programmes
• Millennium Seed Bank
• Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative
• SNP Consortium and International HapMap
• Structural Genomics Consortium
• Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium
• Wellcome Trust Centres
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
• UK Biobank and the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council
• Unit for Drug Discovery Dundee
• 1000 Genomes Project

Research profiles A selection of researchers and projects that we have funded in the biomedical sciences in recent years.

• Dorothy Bishop and understanding specific language impairment [PDF 80KB]
• Anke Ehlers and overcoming anxiety and trauma using cognitive behavioural therapies [PDF 68KB]
• Christopher Fairburn and understanding eating disorders [PDF 96KB]
• Masud Husain and neglect syndrome following stroke [PDF 620KB]
• Vikram Patel and the public health aspects of mental health [PDF 88KB]
• Gabriel Waksman and the bacterial type IV secretion system [PDF 68KB]
• David van Heel and coeliac disease [PDF 84KB]
• John Todd and the genetics of type 1 diabetes [PDF 359KB]
• Mary Morrell and obstructive sleep apnoea [PDF 101KB]
• Shah Ebrahim and the epidemiology of chronic disease in Britain and India [PDF 160KB]
• Matthew Hurles: Copy Number Variation Project
• Anne Johnson: National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL)

Awards made

Details of the major awards made by our Decision-making Committees and the Strategic Awards Committee.

Investigator Award recipients Details of funded Investigator Award holders and the areas they are working in.

Wellcome Fellows A listing of funded fellows in the biomedical sciences.

Strategic Awards Strategic Awards that have been made in the biomedical sciences.

UK funding Other initiatives and schemes that have been funded in the UK.

International funding Fellows, projects and initiatives that have been funded for global health research.

See all grants awarded by us each year