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Funding Opportunity Announcement | Wellcome: Early Career Awards
-(wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/early-career-awards)
The Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme is soliciting applications from early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they should deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing. By the end of the award, successful candidates should be equipped to lead their own independent research programme.
Award details
PI salary for up to five years and up to £400 000 for research purposes.
Eligibility
Early-Career Researchers.
Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval.
Funder deadline:
Three deadlines annually, with the next one for 2026 being 21 July 2026. -
Falling Walls Global Call for Science Breakthroughs 2026
-APPLICATION/NOMINATION PERIOD: 02 FEBRUARY - 15 APRIL 2026
Every year, the Falling Walls Engage Pitches highlight projects that bring science and society into dialogue. By science engagement, we mean initiatives where researchers actively collaborate with communities, citizens, or public audiences – for example through participatory research, citizen science, co-creation processes, public dialogue formats, or community-based initiatives.
We particularly welcome projects that connect science engagement with climate action or broader sustainability challenges.
In our search for the Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2026, we're welcoming applications and nominations in the following categories:- Life Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Engineering & Technology
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Art & Science
- Women's Impact Award (Female Science Talents)
- Science Engagement (Falling Walls Engage)
- Science Start-ups (Falling Walls Venture)
The 15 selected projects will be invited to present their work on stage at the Falling Walls Science Summit (6–9 November 2026). Finalists receive travel support, accommodation, and a full summit ticket.
To apply, please register on our online platform, choose the category and fill in the application or nomination form.
Nominators of projects selected as finalists will receive a free ticket to the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin!
For more information, please visit our website.
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Wellcome LEAP: VISIBLE
-(https://wellcomeleap.org/visible/)
Wellcome LEAP through its VISIBLE program (VISIBLE: Women’s heart disease revealed; access the full programme announcement here) is soliciting proposals across four thrust areas:
- Develop scalable approaches for diagnosis and monitoring of coronary microvascular disease;
- Identify risk factors and evaluate prognosis of coronary microvascular disease endotypes;
- Build and validate multiscale, human-relevant models of the coronary microvasculature to interrogate causal mechanisms of coronary microvascular disease; and
- Develop treatment strategies that improve both coronary microvascular function and patient-centred outcomes by testing existing therapies in well-characterized populations that most likely will benefit.
The goal of VISIBLE is to increase the proportion of women presenting with stable angina who receive effective diagnosis and treatment for coronary microvascular disease from <1% to >80%. In so doing, the program aims to demonstrate advances capable of reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease for millions of women worldwide.
All approaches must incorporate clinically deployable implementation strategies that expand effective care for coronary microvascular disease without increasing the risk of missed diagnosis or treatment of obstructive coronary heart disease.
Eligibility
- Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator.
Award details
- Total Program Budget: US$55 million
- Individual Award Amount: Not preset; varies by proposal and is determined by project scope and review
- Funding Duration: Up to 3 years for selected projects under this program
Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval
Funder deadline:
- Abstracts deadline: 09 March 2026
- Full proposal deadline: 23 April 2026