London’s Pulse opens up the capital’s health records
From smallpox to sun lamps, the health of London and Londoners over 125 years is uncovered with London’s Pulse, an ambitious digitisation project from the Wellcome Library…
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A Gambian midwife’s perspective on extreme heat and pregnancy
Extreme heat will only get worse with climate change, and it has been linked to health risks for pregnant women and their babies. We spoke to a midwife and a researcher in…
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Jane Bracher
Vitamin D found to influence over 200 genes, highlighting links to disease
The extent to which vitamin D deficiency may increase susceptibility to a wide range of diseases is dramatically highlighted in research published today. Scientists have…
‘Circulation’ by Thomas Wright wins the 2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Thomas Wright has been announced as the winner of the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for ‘Circulation’, his biography of William Harvey.
Wellcome Image Awards: a story beyond every picture
The Wellcome Image Awards 2011, celebrating the most striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months, were…
Come and be dazzled by Wellcome Collection’s spring weekend 'On Light'
Wellcome Collection and UCL will host a dazzling extended weekend of free events and activity this May to mark the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies. '…
Wellcome Photography Prize 2020 shortlist announced
The Wellcome Photography Prize has announced its 2020 shortlist.
Wellcome Photography Prize 2021
The Wellcome Photography Prize announces its 2021 winners, chosen from photographs exploring the human side of three urgent health challenges: mental health, infectious…
The Lion's Face
The Opera Group collaborates with the Institute of Psychiatry on ‘The Lion’s Face’, a new opera about dementia.
Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 shortlist announced
The Wellcome Photography Prize has announced its 2021 shortlist.
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic
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Jane Palmer
Wellcome Photography Prize 2020
The winners of the Wellcome Photography Prize 2020, chosen from thousands of entries from 127 countries.
Julia Gillard speaks in Glasgow during COP26
Speaking at a World Health Organization conference in Glasgow, as part of COP26, Julia Gillard, chair of the Wellcome Trust and a …
How to survive in the world’s largest refugee camp
A million Rohingya refugees in crowded shelters with poor sanitation – ideal conditions for infections to spread. Here’s how to stop these deadly outbreaks.
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- Gaia Vince
Mental health: listening to young people and learning from Covid-19
A commitment by Wellcome, UNICEF, the WHO, and the World Economic Forum to embed three principles across our mental health work: lived experience, local innovation, and…
How does extreme heat affect health?
Deadly heatwaves around the world are being made more likely by the climate crisis. Here, we look at how extreme heat impacts health, who is most at risk – and what can be…
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Simge Eva Dogan
Quality assurance of teachers’ continuing professional development
This rapid evidence review looks at lessons from other quality assurance systems, and how they could be applied to teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) in…
How to survive climate change: a lesson from Hurricane Maria
The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change.
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- Jane Palmer
Recent biomedical science awards
Among the new awards made through our Neuroscience and Mental Health funding stream is one to Professor Phil Maguire, a psychiatrist at King’s College London who will be…
UK universities receive millions in capital funding
Over £30 million is being invested in large-scale university infrastructure projects courtesy of the Wellcome-Wolfson Capital Awards initiative.