Grants for Researchers in Healthcare of up to £750,000 from Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust is offering the Healthcare innovator Award for researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health. The funding duration is usually up to 24 months, or up to 36 months for multidisciplinary collaborations with up to £500,000, or up to £750,000 for multidisciplinary collaborations.

Eligibility:-

• Innovator Awards are open to researchers who are developing healthcare innovations that could have a major and measurable impact on human health.

• Individuals and teams from not-for-profit and commercial organisations can apply.

• Organisations can be of any size, based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).

• Funded organisations must sign up to Wellcome Trust’s grant conditions.

• You're not eligible for an Innovator Award if your company is not established and/or doesn't have working capital. 

• Wellcome Trust  won't consider proposals for:

  • Incremental improvements in healthcare

  • ‘Blue skies’ or curiosity-driven research

  • Back-up or me-too drugs

  • Research about the distribution and uptake of healthcare innovations 

  • Delivering health services

  • Public health interventions

  • One-off costs that don’t include key experiments, such as manufacturing a drug substance.

Proposal Specifications:-

• In your proposal, you must:

  • include researchers from at least two different scientific disciplines

  • include at least one researcher from a discipline outside life sciences, such as (but not limited to) engineering, physical science or data science

  • describe the added value of the collaboration, and tell why the outcome(s) of your work will be unique and only achievable through this approach.

• In your proposal, you should describe:

  • The global burden of the disease or condition that you want to address.

  • The unmet healthcare need.

  • The patient population that you want to reach and the impact that your healthcare innovation could have on their health.

  • Why your healthcare innovation will significantly be better than anything that’s already available or being developed.

  • The evidence supporting your proof of concept.

  • What you will do with the funding (eg key experiments and project deliverables) to move your project on to the next stage of development.

  • Your team's expertise and the resources available to you.

  • Your long-term aims beyond this award.

Benefits:-

• An Innovator Award provides up to £500,000 of funding and usually lasts up to 24 months. For multidisciplinary collaborations, awards are up to £750,000 and have a duration of up to 36 months.

• You should ask for a level and duration of funding that's justifiable for your proposed activities.

• Wellcome Trust  support also includes:

  • Staff.

  • Materials and consumables.

  • Animals.

  • Access charges.

  • Research management and support costs (overheads).

  • Travel and subsistence.

  • Overseas allowances.

  • Contract research organisations.

  • Inflation allowance.

  • Open access charges.

  • Project management costs.

  • Clinical research costs.

About Wellcome Trust:-

The Wellcome Trust is a research-charity and an independent global charitable foundation based in London, in the United Kingdom. It aims to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. It had a financial endowment of £25.9 billion in 2018 making it the fourth wealthiest charitable foundation in the world. In 2012, the Wellcome Trust was described by the Financial Times as the United Kingdom's largest provider of non-governmental funding for scientific research, and one of the largest providers in the world.

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