Our impact

Lisa
So when Lulu was born, she had lots of gastro problems. She couldn't feed properly.

Phil
She wasn't reaching her milestones.

Fortunate Machingura
You just got this feeling something's not right. The challenge is still on just basic understanding of the impacts of heat on pregnancy.

Remi Pereszczak
I got diagnosed at two years old with a very rare extreme genetic condition. I feel like I was missing out a lot.

Paul Kazyoba
Passion is one of the drivers to be a successful research scientist.

Archive news report
Compiled last year, the human genome finally goes public. It really was a triumphal celebration.

Claire Booth
These amazing therapies, which were just dreams 30 years ago, are now reality for quite a lot of patients.

Doug Turnbull
The Wellcome Trust gave me a ring and said, we're not going to give you the grant, we're going to make you a Wellcome Centre. And it was totally transformational.

Amy Hardy
The challenge was how do we create a therapy that is more appealing and easier to use that would improve access, experience and outcomes.

Gareth Barnes
I never imagined that this technology was possible. I always thought it was a pipe dream.

Paul Kazyoba
That demonstrates the commitment the Wellcome Trust has in advancing public health in the world.

Fortunate Machingura
I really hope that these very simple interventions can change lives.

Helen Firth
Behind every diagnosis, there's a child and a family.

Speaker of the House (archive)
The ayes to the right, 382.

Kat
It really is a once in a lifetime moment, to be part of something where law is changed for the sake of medical advancement.

Matthew Brookes
I am excited for the future. I hope that in a few years' time, we'll see patients starting to benefit and lives being changed.

Liberty Jones
It's like having a cloud on your head actually.

Exhibition visitor (Sickle Cell)
It's the difference between health and wellness and sickness and pain.

Lisa
Studies like this have to keep happening because without them, loads more parents are going to be just left wondering. So it really has changed us and changed our lives.