DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

Name

DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

Legal name

DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

Website

https://indiaalliance.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance is a non-profit joint funding partnership between India's DBT and the UK's Wellcome Trust that awards research grants to health researchers across South Asia, headquartered in Hyderabad with ~50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Research Funding

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Health Research, Clinical Trials & Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) (HLAJAOAM), Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnerships (HLAJAOAL)

Keywords

• Health research funding
• Biomedical research grants
• Scientific fellowship programs
• Medical research grants
• Discovery research funding

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance is a public-private partnership and grant-making organization that funds health and biomedical research in India. Jointly supported by India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the UK's Wellcome Trust, it provides research grants, fellowships, and other funding awards to researchers and institutions to advance discovery and innovation aimed at improving health outcomes.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Health Research Grants

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Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Fogarty International Center (NIH): US-government center that funds global health research training and capacity building. Comparable as a funder of biomedical research capacity in low- and middle-income countries, including India, and competes for similar investigator talent.
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Multilateral funder channeling billions into disease-focused health programs in India. Comparable as a global health grantmaking entity operating in India, but disease-vertical focused versus India Alliance's broader discovery mandate.
• Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India: Indian government department and co-funder of India Alliance. Comparable as a major domestic health and biotech research funder; shares mandate of building India's biomedical research capacity, though at a vastly larger scale and via direct grants.
• Wellcome Trust: UK-based global charitable foundation and one of India Alliance's two founding funders. Comparable as a biomedical research grantmaker operating internationally, with a much broader and deeper funding portfolio across the UK and global south.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The world's largest private charitable foundation with a heavy India health portfolio. Comparable as a global health funder that channels grants into Indian research institutions, but operates at incomparably larger scale and across multiple disease verticals.

Emerging players

• PATH: Global health nonprofit that funds and co-develops health technologies and research in India and other LMICs. Comparable as a mission-aligned health research and innovation funder, though PATH is more product-development focused while India Alliance is broader discovery.

Direct peers

• The George Institute for Global Health (India): India-based affiliate of an Australian/global NGO conducting clinical and public health research. Comparable as a health research organization based in India that funds and conducts studies to improve health outcomes, with overlapping grantee ecosystems.
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): India's apex body for biomedical research funding and policy. Comparable as an India-headquartered health research grantmaker, though ICMR focuses more on intramural research and infectious disease priorities versus India Alliance's broader discovery mandate.

Regional players

• Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC): Indian government public sector undertaking under DBT that funds biotech innovation and translational research. Comparable as an India-based biotech/health research funder with strong alignment to the DBT ecosystem that India Alliance operates in.

Others

• Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV): Product Development Partnership funding malaria R&D globally including in India. Comparable only thematically as a global health R&D funding entity with India footprint; not a direct competitor for discovery research grants.

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