Wellcome Innovator Awards / Wellcome Innovations funding
Status not published
Wellcome restructured its translational funding under its Discovery Research and health challenge strategies; the historic Innovator Awards scheme has been reshaped.
Historically Innovator Awards ranged from around GBP 100,000 for small early projects to several million for late-stage translational programmes.
Wellcome Trust
private · national
Deadline: rolling — Wellcome restructured its translational funding under its Discovery Research and health challenge strategies; the historic Innovator Awards scheme has been reshaped.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: health
- Stage: idea, pre_seed, seed
- R&D activity required
Wellcome funds internationally, not only UK applicants. Scheme structure changes often - verify before planning.
Source. https://wellcome.org/research-funding — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked