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Grants

Wellcome Innovator Awards / Wellcome Innovations funding

Status

Closed for now

The funder has not said when this reopens.

Closed
Amount
£5,000,000

Historically Innovator Awards ranged from around GBP 100,000 for small early projects to several million for late-stage translational programmes.

Funder

Wellcome Trust

private · national

Deadline: Closed — Ended: Wellcome's Innovator Awards pages are titled '(Closed)' and the scheme is absent from the current funding schemes list; Wellcome Accelerator Awards (also closed) and Springboard Awards are listed.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Wellcome funds internationally, not only UK applicants. Scheme structure changes often - verify before planning.

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Source. https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/innovator-awards-closed

"Innovator Awards (Closed). These awards support researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: wellcome.org

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