Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science with Nature 2026 ($1 million prize) – YOA

Deadline: September 18, 2026

Applications are open for the Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science with Nature 2026. The Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science with Nature champions new interventions that may remodel the lives of individuals affected by anxiousness, melancholy and psychosis.

The objectives of the prize embrace:

• To speed up the event, adoption and coverage prioritisation of efficient interventions for anxiousness, melancholy and psychosis. 
• To generate enthusiasm for psychological well being science amongst policymakers, funders and the general public, thereby encouraging better funding in analysis. 

Benefits

• One general Prize winner will obtain US$1 million. Three runners-up will probably be awarded US$250,000 every.    
• Beyond monetary backing, the prize will present visibility, connections and sensible assist to assist profitable interventions progress in direction of adoption and coverage integration.

Eligibility

• Open to analysis groups growing new, efficient interventions for anxiousness, melancholy or psychosis.  
• Eligible groups could also be primarily based at universities, analysis institutes, hospitals, authorities or not-for-profit organisations, or small and medium sized enterprises.  
• They welcome purposes from world wide.

Application

Entries should be supported by excessive-high quality knowledge and will probably be evaluated on the premise of novelty, credibility, effectiveness and adoptability.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science.