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Grants

Wellcome Innovator Awards / Wellcome Innovations funding

Status

Status not published

Wellcome restructured its translational funding under its Discovery Research and health challenge strategies; the historic Innovator Awards scheme has been reshaped.

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Amount
£5,000,000

Historically Innovator Awards ranged from around GBP 100,000 for small early projects to several million for late-stage translational programmes.

Funder

Wellcome Trust

private · national

Deadline: Open all year — Wellcome restructured its translational funding under its Discovery Research and health challenge strategies; the historic Innovator Awards scheme has been reshaped.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Wellcome funds internationally, not only UK applicants. Scheme structure changes often - verify before planning.

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Source. https://wellcome.org/research-funding · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: wellcome.org

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