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Hear the ‘sound of colour’ and the ‘music of your clothes’ played by an ensemble of ‘Seeing Instruments’ and watch a real, live experiment designed by children where…
Wellcome's new discovery research schemes will give researchers the time, freedom and financial resources to pursue the ideas that will improve human health
Wellcome has launched an initiative, COVID-Zero, to help raise at least $8 billion by the end of April to cover a global funding shortfall for vaccines, treatments and…
Pioneering grassroots projects in four different areas of the world are using innovative approaches to make sure the antibiotics we already have remain effective for as long…
The Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training, and Science in Africa II (DELTAS Africa II) programme funds 14 consortia in nine African countries, with partnerships and…
As part of a nationwide tour of activity from the Wellcome Trust, The Identity Project arrives in Oxford this month. A series of exhibitions, talks and films exploring who we…
Wellcome Photography Prize 2020 is now open for submissions until 16 December 2019. There are five categories, including two for this year's theme, mental health.
A clinical trial is examining whether it is possible to limit damage to the immune system by treating people soon after they are infected with HIV with a short course of…
The world’s first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are…
British multi award-winning screenwriter Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & Bailey) has been awarded the 2016 Wellcome Screenwriting…
Each pound invested in cancer research generates a continuous stream of benefits equal to earning 40 pence a year thereafter, according to a report published today in BMC…
Discovering and then bringing new antibiotics to market is a tricky challenge – but one we need to solve if we want to be better protected against the growing threat of drug-…
Award-winning screenwriter, playwright, actress and poet Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum) receives the 2017 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, in partnership with BFI and Film4.…
Alice Bell, Head of Climate and Health policy at Wellcome, shares her reflections on COP27 and how health research can be transformative for climate policy.
Randy Schekman, a distinguished cell biologist and the 14th editor of ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, has been named the first editor of a new journal that…