Wellcome Trust

15/04/2025

Our Mental Health Award on validating novel drug targets has now closed.

Thank you to all who applied!

The successful projects will receive up to £700,000 each for up to two years – and get access to industry experts.

The goal is to help discover new and improved treatments for people living with anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

Learn more about the funding:

This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

08/04/2025

📢 One week left to apply!

We’re supporting researchers to generate data on novel drug targets related to early intervention in mental health.

Find out more 👇

This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

01/04/2025

⏰ Two weeks left to apply to our Mental Health funding call!

We’re calling on researchers to validate novel targets for drug discovery for anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Find out more: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/target-validation-mental-health?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

28/03/2025

Looking for mental health funding?

We’re supporting researchers to generate data on novel drug targets related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

This funding call is open to researchers:
• from any relevant discipline
• at any stage of their career
• based anywhere in the world
• working with commercial consultants or collaborators

Learn more: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/target-validation-mental-health?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

26/03/2025

Our Climate Impacts Awards has funded 22 projects since 2023 – all focused on making the health impacts of climate change visible and driving policy action at scale.

Here are some examples of the incredible research teams we’re supporting:

• In South Africa, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, a team is investigating the impacts of heat on the respiratory health of primary schoolchildren.

• In Argentina, a team is exploring the health effects of heatwaves on the elderly in five of the country’s most populous cities: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza and San Miguel de Tucumán.

• In Australia, a first-of-its-kind project is collecting and collating evidence of how extremely hot temperatures impact remote First Nations residents.

Interested in applying for funding?

Learn more about this call and apply by 30 April ⤵️

The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

19/03/2025

Looking for climate and health funding?

Our Climate Impacts Awards will support projects that can drive climate policy action at scale by making the impacts of climate change more visible.

We are looking for proposals that:
• generate context-specific evidence using community knowledge and experiences to drive policy actions
• serve the needs of communities most impacted by the health impacts of climate change
• advance stories and narratives that tend to be underrepresented in public discourse

💰 Level: Up to £2.5 million
💡 Duration: Up to 3 years
🗓️ Deadline: 30 April 2025

Learn more about eligibility, key dates and how to apply: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

19/03/2025

We’re funding research to advance the validation of novel targets for drug discovery for anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Successful teams will receive up to £700,000 each for up to two years – and get access to industry experts.

💡 Why are we funding this?

Target validation is a critical step in drug discovery. It tests whether a new drug target can lead to clinical benefits, but it’s underfunded.

By progressing novel targets, we hope to generate the evidence needed to discover new pharmacological treatments for mental health.

🔍 What do we mean by 'targets’?

Any biochemical entity in the body that a drug can bind to, such as receptors, proteins, enzymes or the gut microbiome.

👤 Who can apply?

This call is open to teams of researchers from any relevant discipline, at any stage of their career and based anywhere in the world.

🗓 When is the deadline?

Submit your preliminary applications by 15 April 2025.

✍️ How do I apply?

Visit our website for more information, including how to apply: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/target-validation-mental-health?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

14/03/2025

We’re awarding up to £700,000 each to teams validating novel drug targets to help discover treatments for people living with anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

Interested?

Find out more about the funding, including eligibility and how to apply ⤵️
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/target-validation-mental-health?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

10/03/2025

The window to take urgent climate action is closing rapidly.

It’s crucial to act now to protect more people from the health impacts of climate change.

That’s why we’re funding short-term, high-impact projects that can drive policy action at scale by making the impacts of climate change more visible.

Learn more about the call and apply by 30 April ⤵️
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

07/03/2025

We want to improve pharmacological treatment for mental health.

That’s why we’re funding researchers to validate novel targets related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

This funding call has been designed in collaboration with the Psychiatry Consortium, part of Medicines Discovery Catapult.

Find out more and apply by 15 April ️⤵️
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/target-validation-mental-health?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome

06/03/2025

Mental health conditions are complex, with many interconnecting factors.

Longitudinal datasets can help us understand them. They hold important biological, psychological and social information, collected over time.

Our new Mental Health Award is funding researchers to use these datasets to find early signs of anxiety, depression and psychosis.

This could lead to more effective early interventions.

We’re looking for diverse teams, combining mental health, data science and lived experience expertise.

Awarded projects will receive up to £5 million and applications open on 23 April.

Find out more at our webinar ⤵️

Wellcome are funding research teams to analyse longitudinal data to help identify mental health conditions early. See eligibility information and find out how to apply.

05/03/2025

The impacts of climate change on our physical and mental health aren’t always visible.

Why?

• the links between climate change and health effects are not understood
• climate change's health impacts aren’t given enough focus due to competing priorities
• decision-makers on climate policy are not based where the health impacts are happening

To create meaningful policy change, the health effects of climate change must be made visible.

That’s what our funding call aims to achieve.

The Climate Impacts Awards will support transdisciplinary teams to generate evidence alongside influencing and engagement strategies.

We believe this will lead to climate policy solutions.

Find out more and apply by 30 April ⤵️
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=o-wellcome