Salary: £79,300 Closing date: Sunday, 22 February 2026 Contract type: Permanent Interview dates: 1st stage (W/c 23/03 and 30/03) online/Remote; 2nd stage: face to face The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. These challenges need the bold discovery research we support. Our mission in Discovery Research, a strategic programme within the Discovery Department at Wellcome, is to generate new knowledge that has the potential to transform life, health and wellbeing in ways we can''t always anticipate. We fund researchers, the UK and in LMICs, across disciplines and career stages, creating the conditions for ambitious and transformative research ideas to flourish. By investing in tools, technologies and research cultures, we aim to remove barriers and enable breakthroughs that improve health for everyone. We take a long-term view, supporting research that spans from fundamental biology to social sciences. Our approach includes regular funding opportunities for both investigator and team-led research programmes, major long-term investments and directed initiatives in critical fields to catalyse new research approaches. Diversity and interdisci