Wellcome Career Development Awards
Wellcome United Kingdom · open to applicants worldwide
Long-term funding (usually eight years) for mid-career researchers in any discipline to lead an ambitious research programme, covering research costs and salary if needed.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
What it offers: Research costs (typically under £250,000/year excluding salary) plus salary if needed, usually for 8 years.
Also: no fixed deadline.
Who can apply: Needs a sponsor at an eligible not-for-profit host. From Oct 29, 2026 only hosts in the UK and eligible LMICs in Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia qualify (earlier submissions use current rules).
Always open; applications go to the next of three shortlisting meetings per year. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through wellcome funding platform (you need an account there).
What to prepare: proposal, cv, budget, sponsor statement.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Applications can be submitted at any time.”
Who can apply
- Open to researchers
- Needs a sponsor at an eligible not-for-profit host. From Oct 29, 2026 only hosts in the UK and eligible LMICs in Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia qualify (earlier submissions use current rules).
What you will need
- Grant or policy applicationOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Financial summaryUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Recommendation letters (drafts for your referees)Upload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (wellcome funding platform), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Wellcome without your tap.
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