Awards
We provide six major types of funding: Translation Awards, Strategic Translation Awards, Seeding Drug Discovery, R&D for Affordable Healthcare in India, Pathfinders Awards and the Health Innovation Challenge Fund.
Translation Awards
For applied R&D projects that address an unmet need in healthcare. They are open to academic researchers and companies, and can address almost any area of healthcare.
Additional information, application forms and guidance
Additional information, application forms and guidance
Health Innovation Challenge Fund
Funding partnership between the Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions and facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond.
Additional information and guidance
Additional information and guidance
Seeding Drug Discovery
To facilitate early-stage small-molecule drug discovery. The awards help applicants with a potential drug target or new chemistry embark on a programme of compound discovery and/or lead optimisation.
Additional information, application forms and guidance
Additional information, application forms and guidance
R&D for Affordable Healthcare in India
For translational research projects that will deliver safe and effective healthcare products for India - and potentially other markets - at affordable costs.
Additional information and guidance
Additional information and guidance
Strategic Translation Awards
For applied R&D projects that are close to existing Wellcome Trust interests. For example, these may build on Trust initiatives in basic science, such as genome-wide association studies, or in low- and middle-income country health, in areas like malaria, typhoid or TB.
Additional information, application forms and guidance
Additional information, application forms and guidance
Pathfinders Awards
Pilot funding for Academic-Industry partnerships to develop early-stage applied research and development projects in orphan and neglected disease areas.
Additional information, appplication form and guidance
All Technology Transfer awards are milestone-based. These milestones can be technical, in terms of progression of the technology, or commercial, in terms of acquiring freedom to operate, achieving licensing or securing a patent position.