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Find out what we fund through our mental health programme and our principles of funding. See a list of mental health funding opportunities launching in the next couple of…

Although we fund a wide range of activities, there are some things we don't fund.

Epic Games and Wellcome are inviting games developers based in Europe to participate in a new $500,000 year-long development competition Developing Beyond.

Human evolution, the Black Death and life on Mars are some of the themes chosen by the semi-finalists selected for Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development…

Get information on the types of research that Wellcome funds in Discovery Research, including who we fund and what we don't fund.

The Wellcome Trust is offering members of the public the opportunity to have their face featured in 'Criminel', a noir detective mystery game due for release via the App…

A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…

Games exploring life on Mars, plant breeding and the legacy of the Black Death have made it to the final of Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development competition…

Wellcome Collection today lets loose armies of digital ants to terrorise gamers in ‘Who’s the Pest?’ But in this ant-filled and addictively frantic strategy game, the…

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL have found that by using a mobile app, it is possible to gather, on a large scale, the type of information…

How do athletes move so fast and jump so high? As the world focuses on the extraordinary feats of human performance that will take place in London next summer, the Wellcome…

Initial findings from one of the largest cognitive science experiments ever conducted have shown that mobile games can be used to reliably address psychology questions,…

Strep A is among the deadliest pathogens in the world – yet we’ve never prioritised making a vaccine. Emily Sohn uncovers the cost of ignoring this problem, and meets those…

Find out what we expect of researchers and organisations we fund, and what actions we may take if a researcher or organisation does not comply with Wellcome's terms and…

Cutting-edge science impacts our lives around the world. Society should ask as many questions as possible, writes Professor Joy Y. Zhang. But framing science as '…

Millions of people live with obesity in the UK, but the wider health risks of obesity are poorly understood. Dr Louise Hunter, a clinician and endocrinologist at the…

New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection that is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal ‘…

An innovative new way of communicating science research launches today with Gamify Your PhD, a project from the Wellcome Trust that brings together researchers and games…

After a two-day games hack in which scientists and games developers came together to create video games from doctoral research, a bacterial shoot-em-up game, ‘Dysbiosis’, has…