Wellcome Early Career Development Awards 2026 | Up to 8 Years of Funding for Mid-Career Researchers Worldwide
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Grants & Funding
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August 11, 2026
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Wellcome's Early Career Development Awards 2026 fund up to eight years of independent research for early-career researchers worldwide who are ready to establish their own research identity and eventually lead their own programmes.
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- Applications for the Wellcome Early-Career Awards 2026 offer an important funding opportunity for early-career researchers who are ready to establish their research identity, undertake ambitious independent research and build the experience required to eventually lead their own research programmes.
- However, proposed research must fall within the scope of what Wellcome supports through Discovery Research and must have the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing.
- Applicants must be early-career researchers who are ready to undertake their own innovative research project.
- Read our Q&As for health professionals.
- Researchers based in eligible low- or middle-income countries may hold a:
- Applications must be connected to an eligible administering organisation.
- Eligible low- and middle-income countries in Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia.
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