Deadline: 22 October 2015
Wellcome Trust is currently inviting applications for its Seed Award scheme to provide small, one-off grants – of up to £100,000 for up to two years – to help researchers develop original and innovative ideas. Seed Awards provide responsive, flexible funding, enabling researchers to develop a novel idea to a position where they would be able to be competitive for a larger award from the Wellcome Trust.
The Trust encourages researchers:
- at the start of their independent careers
- who wish to develop innovative ideas outside of their discipline or area of expertise.
Grants Available
Seed Awards are worth up to £100,000 and are normally for up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, you must:
- hold an appointment at an eligible institution in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country;
- not be based at a core-funded research institute;
- receive personal salary support from your host institution for the duration of the award, which must not come from Wellcome Trust funding (e.g. Institutional Strategic Support Fund).
- not have held substantive funding for research in the 12 months before the application closing date.
- You can only hold a Seed Award once in your career.
- We expect applicants to typically have completed a PhD or equivalent higher degree (e.g. an MD).
- If you are based in a low- or middle-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-east Asia or South Asia (with the exception of India), you are eligible to apply if you fulfil the above eligibility criteria and are working within the Trust’s broad science funding remit.
- If you are based in a low- or middle-income country outside the areas mentioned above, you are eligible to apply only if you are carrying out research in the fields of public health and tropical medicine. These research projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either animal or human) of relevance to local, national or global health. This can include laboratory-based molecular analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered.
How to Apply
Applications can be submitted via Trust’s online application portal.
For more information, please visit Wellcome Trust Call.
