Salary: £82,100 Closing date: Sunday, 17 August 2025 Contract type: Permanent Interview dates: w/c 8 September 2025

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 science we support, but they won't be solved by science alone.

We are looking for a Clinical Research Lead to join the Infectious Disease (ID) team. This role is known internally as a Research Lead.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You will be joining the Clinical Research team within Infectious Disease, reporting to the Head of Clinical Research.

Infectious Disease is a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering Wellcome's strategy to address the global health challenge of infectious disease. Our ambitious goal is to accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs, vaccines and interventions through to transforming the lives of people suffering from or at risk of infectious disease. We do this by funding resear...