Wellcome Trust: Seed Awards in Science, July 2018

Seed Awards help researchers develop novel ideas that will go on to form part of larger grant applications to Wellcome or elsewhere.

Funding is for up to £100,000, for up to 2 years.

Your host institute must be based in the UK, ROI or a low-or middle-income country.

Who can apply

You can apply for a Seed Award if you're a researcher who wants to develop a novel idea that will go on to form part of a larger grant application to Wellcome or elsewhere.

To be eligible, you must have a PhD or an equivalent higher degree.

You must be based at an eligible host organisation in the UK, Republic of Ireland or a low- or middle-income country (apart from India).

We particularly encourage researchers: 

• at the start of their independent careers
• who want to develop ideas that are outside their discipline or area of expertise
• who propose interdisciplinary research across our funding in science and population health research, humanities and social science, and product development and applied research funding.

You can have collaborators, but you can't submit a joint application with another person.

Your research proposal

Your research proposal must be within our scientific remit.

These awards give researchers the opportunity to use innovative methodologies and carry out a broad range of activities, such as:

• pilot and scoping studies
• preliminary data gathering
• proof-of-principle studies
• planning sessions
• collaborative network meetings. 

For the full call text please visit the Wellcome Trust grant call webpage.