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Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards in Biomedical Science

Due: this is perpetual, applications may be submitted at any stage
Organisation: Wellcome Trust
WWW: www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Strategic-awards/Awards/Strategic-award

description

Strategic Awards provide flexible forms of support to facilitate research and/or training that is not possible under existing schemes. The aim is to add value to excellent research groups.

’Added value’ may be demonstrated in a number of ways, such as the following examples:

• Capacity building in specific fields through training of research students or fellows
• Development and establishment of new technologies, facilities or resources
• Thematic and/or interdisciplinary research collaborations involving combinations of basic scientists, clinicians (medical and veterinary) and non-biologists (e.g., mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, social scientists)
• Advancement of specific strategic areas
• Translation of basic research into policy and practice

Strategic Awards must involve a partnership with the host institution.

All applications will be divided between the trust’s funding streams:

• Immunology and infectious disease
• Populations and public health
• Neuroscience and mental health
• Physiological sciences
• Molecules, genes and cells

Applications will be considered from principal applicants based either in the UK or the Republic of Ireland — or working overseas but with an academic base in the UK or Republic of Ireland — who meet the eligibility criteria and are recognised international leaders in their field.

Current and former International Senior Research Fellows are also eligible to apply as principal applicants, provided they are based in an eligible institution in a developing or restructuring country.

Strategic Awards must involve a partnership with the host institution. A written commitment from the institution is a prerequisite to submitting an application; this should explain how the proposal fits with the strategic aims and priorities of the institution.

Awards are normally for five years and can provide funds for the following:

• Equipment
• Support staff
• Consumables
• Training programmes
• Networking
• Biological, clinical or epidemiological research resources
• Limited capital building or refurbishment essential to the programme

The support available can be tailored to the needs of individual groups.