Wellcome Trust Fellowship
Schemes
UCL Career Development Workshop
13 January 2015
Dr Lucy Foss
The Wellcome Trust
• A global charitable foundation dedicated to
improving health by supporting bright minds in
science, the humanities and social sciences,
and public engagement.
• Annual spend £700 million
Focus areas
• Supporting outstanding researchers.
• Accelerating the application of research.
• Exploring medicine in historical and
cultural contexts.
Funding Schemes
PhD
BASIC
Senior Research Fellowships in Basic
Biomedical Science
Sir Henry Dale Fellowships
Career Re-entry Fellowships
Investigator Awards
PhD
BASIC & CLINICAL
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
Collaborative Awards
Seed Awards
Senior Research Fellowships in Clinical
Science
PhD
CLINICAL
Principal Research Fellowships
Intermediate Clinical Fellowships
Postdoctoral Training Fellowship for Clinicians
EARLY
INTERMEDIATE
SENIOR
Basic Biomedical Science
Basic Biomedical Fellowships
• Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
o Eligibility: up to 2 years postdoctoral research experience
o £250,000 for 4 years
o At least 2 research locations
*Updated*
• Sir Henry Dale Postdoctoral Fellowships
o Royal Society
o Eligibility: up to 7 years postdoctoral research experience
o 5 years support (renewal for an additional 3 years)
• Senior Research Fellowships in Basic
Biomedical Science
o Eligibility: 7-12 years postdoctoral research experience *Updated*
o 5 years support
Career Re-entry Fellowships
Career Re-entry Fellowships
• To enable post-doctoral scientists
to return to independent research
after a decision to take a career
break of at least 2 years.
• Fellow’s salary, research
expenses, training
• Up to 4 years
• Applicants should still be on
career break when submitting a
preliminary application
Flexibility
Flexibility for our researchers
For applicants
• Inform us of career breaks – taken into
consideration when assessing eligibility
For grant holders
• Maternity/paternity/adoption and sick
leave supplements and extensions
• Our researchers and their teams may
change their working hours at any point
during their awards
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Our-vision/Flexible-research-careers/index.htm
New Schemes
New Schemes
Seed Awards
Collaborative Awards
•
•
responsive, flexible funding,
enabling researchers to
develop a novel idea.
• Up to £100,000 over 2 years.
• First deadline: 25 February
2015
Single or cross-discipline
(but cross-discipline
encouraged).
• Up to £4,000,000 over 5
years.
• First deadline: May 2015
Key contacts
Key contacts – We are here to help!
Website
www.wellcome.ac.uk
Grants Information Desk
+44 (0)20 7611 5757
sciencegrants@wellcome.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Foss
Grants Adviser - Cellular, Developmental
and Physiological Sciences
L.Foss@wellcome.ac.uk
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/index.htm