Senior Research Manager, Therapeutics

Job description

Salary: £ 65,200 Closing date: Monday, 11 May 2026 Contract type: Fixed Term Contract – End date: Jun. 2027 Interview dates: 1st stage online/Remote (w/c 25 May) 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 committed to spend £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. This is an exciting time to join Wellcome under the direction of our new CEO John Arne Rottingen who joined in 2024. The Infectious Disease Solutions Programme (IDSP) is a relatively new team and as such this is an opportune time to join and help us drive forward our strategy. The team focuses on two key drivers of infectious disease environmental change and antimicrobial resistance. We take a holistic approach combining an interest in gaining a better understanding of these drivers to accelerate the development and use of interventions. Our current focus is on vector borne disease, cholera, TB, fungal infections and bacterial AMR with a focus o...