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Wellcome Trust unveils new funding framework

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Research Summary: Wellcome Trust Funding Framework

Topic: Research funding and grant administration framework
Key Initiatives: Collaborative research schemes, seed funding for innovation, unified Investigator Awards, postdoctoral and translational research support
Target Audience: Research teams across career stages, from early-stage investigators to established research leaders
Primary Objective: Support collaborative and innovative research through structured funding mechanisms that enable team-based scientific inquiry and translational excellence.
Notable Changes: Merger of New and Senior Investigator Award schemes into single career-stage-flexible framework; expansion of seed funding and public engagement portfolios
Implementation Focus: Career-stage equity in consideration, emphasis on collaborative excellence, and sustained public engagement in research outcomes

The Wellcome Trust announces exciting changes to its funding framework. The most significant changes are:

  • A new scheme for collaborative research, to support groups of researchers to pursue key questions. This scheme is to enable team projects, led by multiple researchers, which can only succeed through working together.
  • A new scheme for seed funding to support original and innovative ideas, with a view to enabling researchers to move towards a larger research application.
  • The New Investigator and Senior Investigator Award schemes are merging into a single Investigator Award scheme. All candidates will be considered according to their career stage and experience to date.
  • Increased opportunities for research leaders of the future through our established schemes of Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships and Sir Henry Dale Fellowships.
  • New schemes to encourage the development of portfolios of translational research projects and sustained excellence in public engagement.

The full press release is here.

 

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