Grants for Researches in Health Up to £ 500,000 from Wellcome 2020

Wellcome is offering a grant to health care researchers who transform great ideas into innovations that could have a significant impact on human health.

Eligibility Criteria:

• 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 organizations can apply.
• Organizations can be of any size, based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
• You can work in any scientific discipline. You can work on any type of technology. Examples of technologies include:

• Therapeutics.
• Vaccines.
• Devices.
• Diagnostics.
• Digital technologies.
• Regenerative medicine.
• The work that you propose must be essential for developing your healthcare innovation.

• The Organization particularly encourages proposals from multidisciplinary collaborations within or between organizations. These collaborations do not need to include life sciences, researchers.

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 us why the outcome(s) of your work will be unique and only achievable through this approach.

If your proposal is successful and involves collaborators or partnerships, you must all enter into an agreement stating:

• who will own any IP that arises from this award? 
• the necessary background IP licenses.
• how you plan to protect, maintain, and commercialize Welcome-funded IP.

If you’re one of our past or current innovations award holders, you can apply for an Innovator Award if you propose to develop a healthcare innovation that we haven't funded.

Ineligible Proposals:

The following proposals will not be considered:

• 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.

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

Note: If you've previously been unsuccessful in getting Wellcome funding for your healthcare innovation, you must contact the organization before you apply again. You can't usually apply again unless your proposal has changed significantly.

Grant Value:

• 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.
• Support includes staff, materials and consumables, animals, access charges, research management and support costs (overheads), travel and subsistence, overseas allowances, contract research organizations, inflation allowance, open access charges, project management costs, clinical research costs, and other costs.

About Wellcome Trust:

Wellcome is a politically and financially independent foundation that supports researchers, takes on big health challenges, campaigns for better science, and helps everyone get involved with science and health research. The foundation’s funding supports over 14,000 people in more than 70 countries. In the next five years, it aims to spend up to £5 billion helping thousands of curious, passionate people all over the world explore ideas in science, population health, medical innovation, the humanities, and social sciences and public engagement.

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